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When Kai Zuber’s pioneering text on neutrinos was published in 2003, the author correctly predicted that the field would see tremendous growth in the immediate future. In that book, Professor Zuber provided a comprehensive self-contained examination of neutrinos, covering their research history and theory, as well as their application to particle physics, astrophysics, nuclear physics, and the
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For decades, scientists have envisioned the possibility of storing energy in the form of nuclear excitations, resulting in specific nuclear configurations known as isomers. These unique metastable states have the ability to maintain their excited state for periods that range from several years to time spans exceeding the age of the Universe. However, despite numerous research efforts, achieving
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IAEA work in the area of research reactor operation and maintenance is aimed at enhancing the capabilities of Member States to utilize good engineering and management practices to improve research reactor reliability and availability. In particular, the IAEA supports activities addressing ageing management of research reactor instrumentation and control (I&C) systems. The purpose of this
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The production of heavy quarks in high-energy experiments offers a rich field to study, both experimentally and theoretically. Due to the additional quark mass, the description of these processes in the framework of perturbative QCD is much more demanding than it is for those involving only massless partons. In the last two decades, a large amount of precision data has been collected by the deep
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The Particle Hierarchy Paradigm

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The Particle Hierarchy Paradigm is a way of understanding how nature determines the mass and energy values of particles as determined by experimental physics.Field Structure Theory is a research project into fundamental form and structure. This paper will explore one particular problem in physics, that of the particle hierarchy.While mass and energy values of particles have been known with
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Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This book presents a high-precision measurement of the cross section for electron-positron annihilation into three pions (π⁺ π⁻ π⁰) using the initial-state radiation (ISR) method with Belle II data, offering key input for the hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon. It addresses longstanding tensions in hadronic cross-section data and contributes to the refinement of the Standard ... Read more

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This book presents a high-precision measurement of the cross section for electron-positron annihilation into three pions (π⁺ π⁻ π⁰) using the initial-state radiation (ISR) method with Belle II data, offering key input for the hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon. It addresses longstanding tensions in hadronic cross-section data and contributes to the refinement of the Standard
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Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
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Neutron Imaging

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Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This book comprehensively presents the concepts of neutron physics and imaging including neutron properties, neutron matter interaction, neutron imaging, comparison with X-ray and physics and design of neutron sources. It discusses how neutron imaging has gained importance as a powerful non-destructive technique to understand the internal structures of materials/engineered components in wide range ... Read more

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This book comprehensively presents the concepts of neutron physics and imaging including neutron properties, neutron matter interaction, neutron imaging, comparison with X-ray and physics and design of neutron sources. It discusses how neutron imaging has gained importance as a powerful non-destructive technique to understand the internal structures of materials/engineered components in wide range
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Nuclear Data

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Series series IOP ebooks
This book introduces nuclear data to the newcomer and provides a basic introduction to the role of nuclear data as the foundation of nuclear structure study. The material presented assumes no prior knowledge of the content or language used in communicating details of nuclear data. The approach builds on basic concepts: from gross properties of nuclei, through properties of quantum excited states, ... Read more

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This book introduces nuclear data to the newcomer and provides a basic introduction to the role of nuclear data as the foundation of nuclear structure study. The material presented assumes no prior knowledge of the content or language used in communicating details of nuclear data. The approach builds on basic concepts: from gross properties of nuclei, through properties of quantum excited states,
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Magnetic Fusion Energy

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Magnetic Fusion Energy: From Experiments to Power Plants is a timely exploration of the field, giving readers an understanding of the experiments that brought us to the threshold of the ITER era, as well as the physics and technology research needed to take us beyond ITER to commercial fusion power plants. With the start of ITER construction, the world's magnetic fusion energy (MFE) enterprise has ... Read more

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