Flavor Physics and the TeV Scale / / by George W. S. Hou

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910337879103321
• Autore: Hou George W. S
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019
• ISBN: 3-662-58629-0
• Edizione: [2nd ed. 2019.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XV, 210 p. 70 illus., 55 illus. in color.)
• Collana: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, , 0081-3869 ; ; 233
• Disciplina: 539.725
• Soggetti: Particles (Nuclear physics); Quantum field theory; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- CP Violation in Charmless b sqq Transitions -- Bs Mixing and sin2ΦBs -- H+ Probes: b sγ, and B τν, D(*)τν -- Electroweak Penguin: b sℓℓ, Anomalies, Z′ -- Scalar Interactions and Right-handed Currents -- Probes of the Dark Sector at Flavor Facilities -- D and K Systems: Box and EWP Redux -- Lepton Number Violating and μ, τ Systems -- The Top and the Higgs -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: A CP Violation Primer -- Appendix B: Requiem to 4th Generation -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The second edition of this monograph discusses the usefulness of heavy flavor as a probe of TeV-scale physics, exploring a number of recently-uncovered “flavor anomalies” that are suggestive of possible TeV-scale phenomena. The large human endeavor at the Large Hadron Collider has not turned up any New Physics, except the last particle of the Standard Model, the Higgs boson. Revised and updated throughout, this book puts the first results from the LHC into perspective and provides an outlook for a new era of flavor physics. The author readdresses many questions raised in the first edition and poses new ones. As before, the experimental perspective is taken, with a focus on processes, rather than theories or models, as a basis for exploration, and two-thirds of the book is concerned with b -^ s or bs sb transitions. In the face of the advent of Belle II and other flavor ; experiments, this book becomes a part of a dialogue between the energy/collider and intensity/flavor frontiers that will continue over the coming decade. Researchers with an interest in modern particle physics will find this book particularly valuable.

Ten Worlds of Welfare Capitalism : A Global Data Analysis / / by Christian Aspalter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910647780803321
• Autore: Aspalter Christian
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023
• ISBN: 9789811978630; 9789811978623
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2023.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (210 pages)
• Disciplina: 361.61
• Soggetti: Social policy; Welfare state; Well-being; Comparative Social Policy; Welfare; Well-Being
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Part 1. Introductory Part: Background and Rationale -- Chapter 1. Introduction: On the Particular Nature of Ideal Types Applied and Moving Science Forward a Bit at a Time -- Part 2. Theory Building: From Empirical Reality for Social Policy Practice -- Chapter 2. On the Methodology Applied -- Chapter 3. Ten Ideal-Typical Worlds and Their Individual Sets of Key Characteristics -- Chapter 4. Welfare Regimes and Their Povertization and Inequality Outcomes -- Chapter 5. Distinct Shades and Patterns of Dehumanization: Mapping Global Welfare Regimes -- Part 3. Normative/Concluding Part -- Chapter 6. Back to the Future: Income Polarization, Mass Povertization and Simple Ways Out of It -- Chapter 7. Decency for All: Universal Basic Income, Smart ; Universalism, Provident Funds, and Primarily Taxing the Super-Rich.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents a new step farther into the twenty-first century, for the first time truly combining a comprehensive global data analysis with social policy theory development. The theory of global ideal-typical welfare regimes, also known as the “Ten Worlds of Welfare Regime Theory”, as set forth earlier by Christian Aspalter, is now in this book tested empirically using a quantitative global data analysis for the first time. The strong and rich results fully vindicated the Ten Worlds Theory. All in all, about 150 countries are included in this test, measuring numerous variables on two main dimensions, i.e., povertization and inequality. The innovative approach of using a new indicator, Aspalter’s Standardized Relative Performance Index, is applied, which facilitated the exact measurements of distances between relative performances of each variable, each dimension, each country, and each ideal-typical welfare regime (in relation to one another, respectively). In addition, oneexplanative and one normative meta-study is added to the book, to point to ways to understand and deal with the global culprit of inequality and, hence, poverty. “On the backdrop of decades of comparative theoretical and empirical research we now, for the first time, have a truly global analysis of welfare regimes.” ---- Peter Abrahamson, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.