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Elementary-Particle Physics at the University of Milan 1951–1956
If history was made in the development of strange-particle Physics, under the guidance of Giuseppe Occhialini (Beppo), by the nuclear emulsion...
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Supergravity: Application in Particle Physics
We provide a pedagogical introduction to N = 1 supergravity/supersymmetry in relation to particle physics. The various steps in the construction of a...
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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Particle Physics
I will review the appearance of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in particle physics at the end of the fifties and beginning of the sixties of the...
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A brief history of Florentine physics from the 1920s to the end of the 1960s
The history of the Institute of Physics at the University of Florence is traced from the beginning of the twentieth century, with the arrival of...
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Stochastic state-transition-change process and particle physics
The description of particle phenomena is important for basically all fields of physics. The contemporary theoretical statistical description of a...
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Introduction to topological defects: from liquid crystals to particle physics
Liquid crystals are assemblies of rod-like molecules which self-organize to form mesophases, in between ordinary liquids and anisotropic crystals. At...
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The Higgs Boson and the Standard Model of Particle Physics
The Standard Model of particle physics (SM) [1] is the pillar on which the current understanding of the subatomic world is based. It describes the...
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History of Physics for Education: The Scientific Contributions of Enrico Fermi
Physics teaching often leads students to believe that the content presented is either the result of chance or, rather, is due to geniuses far removed...
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The Physics of Elementary Particles
The development of cosmic ray physics led scientists to discover that astrophysical sources produce projectiles of extremely high energy that reach...
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Plasma Physics of the Intracluster Medium
This chapter provides a brief tutorial on some aspects of plasma physics that are fundamental to understanding the dynamics and energetics of the...
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Fundamental Physics with Neutron Stars
Neutron stars are rich laboratories of multiple branches of modern physics. These include gravitational physics, nuclear and particle physics,...
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Particle Horns of Plenty
The proton colliders from the previous chapter reached high energies and discovered new particles, but only in very small numbers. Precision...
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“Philosophysics” at the University of Vienna: The (Pre-)History of Foundations of Quantum Physics in the Viennese Cultural Context
Vienna today is one of the capitals of research on foundations of quantum physics. We reconstruct the development of modern physics in Vienna, with a...
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The end of the particle era?
The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 at CERN completed the experimental confirmation of the Standard Model particle spectrum. Current theoretical...
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High Energy Physics and the European Strategy
Some remarks about the outcome of the European Strategy for Particle Physics and the future of high-energy physics in Europe.
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The Many Roles of Metaphors in Learning and Doing Physics
In recent years, the physics education community has embraced embodied cognition perspectives to further explore the role of metaphors in the...
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Matter, Dark Matter, Dark Energy Interactions and New Physics
It is common knowledge that there are unsolved problems in particle physics and cosmology. Among these, the physical origin of dark matter and dark...
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Fundamental Physics with Neutron Stars
Neutron stars are rich laboratories of multiple branches of modern physics. These include gravitational physics, nuclear and particle physics,...
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Future of Solar-Terrestrial Physics
As already noted, solar-terrestrial physics as a whole has already gone far beyond the initial understanding of this term, and the fields of its...
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Heavy Ion Physics
Calorimetric low temperature detectors have the potential to become powerful tools for applications in many fields of heavy ion physics. A brief...