Table of contents : Glossary......Page 1 Cp Symmetry......Page 2 Observation of Cp Violation......Page 3 Recent Progress......Page 4 Future Areas of Research......Page 5 References......Page 6 Glossary......Page 7 Background And Scope......Page 8 Basic Theoretical Method......Page 9 Pauli’s Exclusion Principle......Page 10 Fermi Gas Method......Page 11 Relativistic Electrons......Page 12 Equation of State......Page 13 Thomas–Fermi Method......Page 14 High Temperatures......Page 16 Neutronization......Page 17 Nuclear Semiempirical Mass Formula......Page 19 Liquid Drop Model......Page 20 Neutron Matter......Page 21 Quark Matter......Page 22 The Second Density Domain......Page 23 The Third Density Domain......Page 24 Neutron Matter Region......Page 25 Pion Condensation Region......Page 26 Quark Matter......Page 27 Electrical Conductivity......Page 28 Thermal Conductivity......Page 30 Shear Viscosity......Page 31 Neutrino Emissivity And Opacity......Page 32 Neutrino Emissivity......Page 33 Neutrino Opacity......Page 35 References......Page 36 Glossary......Page 37 QFT of Electromagnetism......Page 39 Concept of Renormalization......Page 40 Gauge Invariance in QFT......Page 41 Full Standard Model Lagrangian......Page 42 Confronting the Infinities......Page 44 Building Blocks for Renormalizing the Standard Model......Page 45 Renormalization Schemes for the SM......Page 46 Phenomenology of the Standard Model......Page 49 Definition of Pseudo-Observables......Page 50 Fitting the Experimental Data......Page 52 See also the Following Articles......Page 53 References......Page 54 Glossary......Page 55 Green’S Theorem and Green’S Functions in Electrostatics......Page 56 Retarded Electromagnetic Potential......Page 57 The Dirac Equation......Page 58 Perturbation Theory......Page 59 Field Theory......Page 60 References......Page 61 Glossary......Page 62 QCD Vacuum and Symmetries......Page 64 Phase Diagram of Matter......Page 67 QGP Signatures......Page 68 Charmonium Suppression......Page 69 Strangeness Enhancement......Page 70 Electromagnetic Probes......Page 71 J/ψ Suppression......Page 72 Multi-Strange Particle Production......Page 73 Interpretation......Page 74 RHIC Program......Page 75 References......Page 76 Glossary......Page 77 The First Theory of β-Decay. Fermi......Page 79 Lepton Number. Discovery of the Neutrino......Page 80 Nonconservation of Parity in β-Decay. The Two-Component Neutrino......Page 81 Universal Current × Current Theory of Weak Interactions......Page 83 Discovery of the νµ. Electron and Muon Lepton Numbers......Page 85 Strange Particles in the Current × Current Interaction. The Cabibbo Angle......Page 86 Glashow–Weinberg–Salam Theory of the Electroweak Interaction......Page 87 The Discovery of Neutral Currents......Page 88 Deep Inelastic Neutrino–Nucleon Scattering and the Quark Structure of Nucleon......Page 89 Neutrino Masses. Introduction......Page 91 Neutrino Mixing......Page 92 Neutrino Oscillations......Page 93 Experiments on the Search for Neutrino Oscillations......Page 94 The Solar Neutrino Experiments......Page 95 The Atmospheric Neutrino Experiments......Page 97 The Neutrinoless Double β-Decay......Page 98 References......Page 99 Glossary......Page 100 Tools of the Nuclear Chemist......Page 101 Basic Nature of Radioactivity......Page 103 Decay, Growth and Decay, Naturally Occurring Radionuclides......Page 104 Basic Constituents of Nuclear Matter......Page 105 New Elements......Page 106 Nuclear Shell Model......Page 107 Beta Decay......Page 108 Basic Features......Page 109 Heavy-Ion-Induced Reactions......Page 110 High-Energy Reactions......Page 111 Fission......Page 112 Production Of New Elements......Page 113 Recent Developments......Page 117 References......Page 118 Glossary......Page 119 Twentieth-Century History......Page 120 Nuclear Sizes and Shapes......Page 121 Nuclear Masses......Page 122 Beta Decay......Page 123 Alpha Decay......Page 124 Limits of Metastability......Page 125 Motion of Nucleons in Nuclei......Page 126 Deformed Nuclei......Page 127 Equilibrium Deformations and Rotations......Page 129 Interacting Boson Model......Page 131 Nucleon Scattering......Page 132 Nuclei as Projectiles......Page 133 Fission Reactors......Page 134 Subnuclear Structure......Page 135 References......Page 136 Glossary......Page 137 The Standard Model......Page 138 Particle Reactions......Page 139 Feynman Diagrams......Page 140 Ranges of the Fundamental Forces......Page 141 The Six Known Leptons......Page 142 Lepton Number Conservation......Page 143 Neutrinos......Page 144 Introduction......Page 145 Jets......Page 146 Quark Numbers......Page 147 Baryons and Mesons......Page 148 Hadron Lifetimes......Page 149 Flavor Independence......Page 150 Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)......Page 151 Quark Jets......Page 153 Color Counting......Page 154 W± and Z 0 Bosons......Page 155 Quarks and Hadrons......Page 157 Neutral Currents and the Unified Theory......Page 158 Experimental Methods......Page 160 Accelerators and Beams......Page 161 Particle Detectors......Page 162 Grand Unification......Page 164 Supersymmetry......Page 165 Neutrino Oscillations......Page 166 References......Page 168 Introduction......Page 169 Experimental Detectors for Proton Decay......Page 172 The Next Step in the Search for Nucleon Decay......Page 175 References......Page 176 Glossary......Page 177 Symmetry in the Standard Model......Page 179 Unification Using Extended Symmetry......Page 183 Quantitative Unification......Page 184 Succeeding with Supersymmetry......Page 185 References......Page 187