This book presents material that includes introductory reviews of astrophysics, the status of electroweak theories, Higgs searches, and precision tests of the standard model. Recent results on CP violation from CERN's NA48 experiment are discussed, along with the most recent results from the Babar and Belle experiments at the B factories at SLAC in the US and KEK in Japan. Following that are theoretical talks on heavy quark decays and non-perturbative QCD. There are also discussions on QCD results from CERN's LEP and DESY's HERA colliders. Pre-conference presentations cover applications of...

This book aims to present the history and developments of particle physics from the introduction of the notion of particles by the Ionian school until the discovery of the Higgs boson at LHC in 2012 and discuss the future developments of the field. The evolution of accelerators where different particles have been discovered is reviewed and details about the CERN accelerators are presented. A short presentation of some features of astrophysics and its connection to particle physics is also included.

This book aims to present the history and developments of particle physics from the introduction of the notion of particles by the Ionian school until the discovery of the Higgs boson at LHC in 2012 and discuss the future developments of the field. The evolution of accelerators where different particles have been discovered is reviewed and details about the CERN accelerators are presented. A short presentation of some features of astrophysics and its connection to particle physics is also included.

This 2004 book, reissued as OA, provides a pedagogical introduction to the perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). It will be a valuable reference for graduate students and researchers in high-energy particle and nuclear physics, both theoretical and experimental.