Introduction to Particle and Astroparticle Physics Multimessenger Astronomy and its Particle Physics Foundations /

• Main Authors: De Angelis, Alessandro (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Pimenta, Mário (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2018.
• Series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
• Subjects: Astrophysics.; Nuclear physics.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.

This book introduces particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. Starting from an experimental perspective, it provides a unified view of these fields that reflects the very rapid advances being made. This new edition has a number of improvements and has been updated to include material on the Hig...

Table of Contents:

• Understanding the universe: particles and their interactions
• The birth and the basics of particle physics
• Cosmic rays and the development of particle physics
• Particle detection
• Particles and symmetries
• Interactions and field theories
• The Higgs mechanism and the standard model of particle physics
• The standard model of cosmology and the dark universe
• Neutrino oscillations and masses
• Messengers from the high-energy universe
• Astrobiology, and the relation of fundamental physics to life.