PARTICLE PHYSICS, 2E VSI: A Very Short Introduction

The best introduction to particle physics. He book has some detailed images and diagrams for readers. A short book to the amazing side of atoms and physics.

Basic introduction about elementary particles. Images of LHC data are very clear and fine! Well I DO NOT recommend it if you are looking for anything having mathematical derivation and all.

It is a very good book through the alphabet are extremely small. This book is not for novice. Best approach is to go through some youtube videos and have some understanding of the concept and then read it. I applied this approach and things were 60-70% clear on the book. Many chapters read to be read 2 - 3 times to understand it.

In simple terms, Frank Close explains the basics of Particle Physics. Recommended to readers who needs an overview of whats happening in the modern physics field.

This book is best for those people who are interested in cosmology

The book is average on particle physics information. Some time very hard word are used and I need to refer on line dictionary of explanation of word while reading this book.

Book is awesome but too costly as compared to size not knowledge.

Small and compact- a brief, yet learned view of the physics of sub-atomic particles. Everyone knows about the Large Hadron Collider. Here is a book that tells us the science behind the machine.

When I started reading the book, I've already worked in Particle Physics for 8 years. But nevertheless I enjoyed every minute of it. I like the comprehensive way of describing physics and experimental devices used to study it without getting too deep into details. A reader can follow, how the field and instrumentation have evolved. The book will inspire the reader to go deeper and read more about the topic they are interested in. For example, I'm going to read more about CP violation and Chiral Effective Field Theory.

Compact size and concise descriptions highly informative.

Excelente libro para una introducción a la física de partículas. No hay matemáticas, se basa en conceptos que una persona con una bachillerato en ciencias puede comprender sin necesidad de recordar instrumentos complejos como el tratamiento matemático implícito. Está escrito en inglés, una persona con nivel intermedio lo puede leer con pocos problemas, si usa Kindle puede activar el significado de palabras y usar el diccionario que permite traducir palabras o más según el modelo (pero es mejor consultar antes las opciones)

The book contains everything we know about particles and explains it in a very nice way. As a teacher of physics I can recommend it to my pupils.

Like most books in this series, it is written by an expert and Frank Close is certainly that. MY copy is the second edition. “Let’s take the analogy of the full stop once more. We had to magnify it 100 times to see an atom with the naked eye; to the diameter of the planet to see the nucleus. To reveal the quarks we would need to expand the dot to the size of the Moon and the keep on going another 20 times further. In summary, the underlying structure of the atom is beyond real imagination.” Close takes each item in the Standard Model, provides its history and discovery and the “some more” to elucidate modern particle physics in language which is accessible to a readership outsid PhDs in physics. In Chapter Six, “Detectors, cameras and time machines” he details the history of atomic physics and clarifies the ways in which knowledge of particle physics has advanced and how engineering has combined with physics to create the machines able to detect smaller and smaller particle, e.g. particle accelerators and the Large Hadron Collider. In a pocket-sized book it is not possible to be include all of a subject but, in this text, the writer is very close to achieving that. Recommended.