Texts

One text, Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics by Ashok Das and Tom Ferbel, is required.

The required text is an excellent introduction to much of the background material we will cover, and also a good learning resource for a number of topics we will not cover, including nuclear structure.

Other books of interest have been placed on reserve in the Physics and Astronomy Library, located on the 3^rd floor of B&L. These include:

• Cahn, R. and Goldhaber, G., The experimental foundations of particle physics
• Griffiths, David J., Introduction to elementary particles
• Kleinknecht, K., Detectors for particle radiation
• Leo, William R., Techniques for nuclear and particle physics experiments
• Perkins, Donald H., Introduction to high energy physics
• Williams, W.S.C., Nuclear and particle physics

Other material will be available on the course home page,

http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~ksmcf/p254