Particles and Fundamental Interactions: Supplements, Problems and Solutions

Giorgio M. Giacomelli became full professor of Physics in 1971. He is (co)author of more than 650 publications in scientific journals and over 350 reports and conference proceedings. He supervised 115 Laurea Theses, 30 PhD Theses.  He received prizes from the Italian Physical Society, the University of Bologna and from the A. Della Riccia Foundation. He is “Marchigiano of the year 2006”. In 1981 the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) listed him in the “1000 Contemporary Scientists Most-Cited in 1969-78". He is presently in the Highly Cited list of ISI. He was Director of the Institute of Physics, of the Department of Physics (1975-88) and President of the Laurea in Physics Committee of the University of Bologna. He was a member of many national and international scientific committees (SPSC, LEPC and ECFA at CERN, HEP at Fermilab, of INFN, of the ENI foundation, of CTS of ENEA, bioethics of CNR, of the Galvani Committee). Presently he is Emeritus Professor atthe University of Bologna, collaborator of INFN and CERN, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Socio Benemerito of the Italian Physical Society, member of the European Physical Society, of the Accademia delle Scienze di Bologna, of the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Accademia Teatina. He is one of the Editors of the Journal “Astroparticle Physics”.

From the reviews: "This book is intended mainly to undergraduate students in experimental and theoretical physics but is also suitable for physics teachers that can find here an extensive collection of exercises (or can be inspired by them). It can be also very useful to all the people that want to approach the subject of modern particle physics and are looking for a good training." (Philosophy, Religion and Science Book Reviews, bookinspections.wordpress.com, September, 2013)

• Historical notes and fundamental concepts.- Particle interaction with matter and detectors.- Particle accelerators and particle detection.- The paradigm of interactions: the electromagnetic case.- First discussion of the other fundamental interactions.- Invariance and conservation principles.- Interactions of hadrons at low energies and the static quark model.- Weak interactions and neutrinos.- Discoveries in electron-positron collisions.- High energy interactions and the dynamic quark model.- The Standard Model of the Microcosm .- CP violation and particle oscillations.- Microcosm and Macrocosm.- Fundamental aspects of nucleon interactions.