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Griffiths is a graduate of The Putney School and was trained at Harvard University (B.A., 1964; M.A., 1966; Ph.D., 1970). His doctoral work, Covariant Approach to Massless Field Theory in the Radiation Gauge on theoretical particle physics, [4] was supervised by Sidney Coleman.
Introduction to Elementary Particles, by David Griffiths, is an introductory textbook that describes an accessible "coherent and unified theoretical structure" of particle physics, appropriate for advanced undergraduate physics students. [1] It was originally published in 1987, and the second revised and enlarged edition was published 2008.
In February 2017, she gave a talk at Google titled "Becoming YouTube's Physics Girl". [14] In 2018, she gave a keynote at CAST 2018 and at STEMtastic. [15] [16] [17] In December 2017, she was featured in an interview in APS News. [18] Cowern has been featured in the Huffington Post, Slate, and Scientific American blogs. [19] [20]
The field equations of condensed matter physics are remarkably similar to those of high energy particle physics. As a result, much of the theory of particle physics applies to condensed matter physics as well; in particular, there are a selection of field excitations, called quasi-particles, that can be created and explored. These include:
V is the potential energy of the particle (measured relative to any convenient reference level), E is the energy of the particle that is associated with motion in the x-axis (measured relative to V), M(x) is a quantity defined by V(x) − E, which has no accepted name in physics.
The Ideas of Particle Physics: An Introduction for Scientists. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-72740-2. D.J. Griffiths (1987). Introduction to Elementary Particles. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-60386-3. W. N. Cottingham and D. A. Greenwood (2023). An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Cambridge University Press.
Particle physics or high-energy physics is the study of fundamental particles and forces that constitute matter and radiation. The field also studies combinations of elementary particles up to the scale of protons and neutrons , while the study of combination of protons and neutrons is called nuclear physics .
Color charge is a property of quarks and gluons that is related to the particles' strong interactions in the theory of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Like electric charge, it determines how quarks and gluons interact through the strong force; however, rather than there being only positive and negative charges, there are three "charges", commonly called red, green, and blue.