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With this graduate-level primer, the principles of the standard model of particle physics receive a particular skillful, personal and enduring exposition by one of the great contributors to the field.In 2013 the late Prof. Altarelli wrote: The discovery of the Higgs boson and the non-observation of new particles or exotic phenomena have made a big step towards completing the experimental confirmation of the standard model of fundamental particle interactions. It is thus a good moment for me to collect, update and improve my graduate lecture notes on quantum chromodynamics and the theory of electroweak interactions, with main focus on collider physics. I hope that these lectures can provide an introduction to the subject for the interested reader, assumed to be already familiar with quantum field theory and some basic facts in elementary particle physics as taught in undergraduate courses.

elementary particles --- quantum field theory --- string theory

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The demand for more men as pre-school teachers in day-care centres is becoming clearer and clearer For this reason, the Austrian research project "Elementar" has comprehensively investigated the situation of male pre-school teachers and carers in the elementary field in a unique study. The diverse results emphasise the opportunities associated with the participation of men, but also call for a critical and differentiated examination of gender issues in the elementary field. Pupils, trainees and teachers working in practice were interviewed using quantitative and qualitative methods. Male trainees and skilled workers were surveyed in a full survey. The results were evaluated using statistical methods and qualitative content analyses. For the first time, biographical backgrounds and identities of male pre-school teachers were also examined psychoanalytically. On the basis of their results, the authors formulate concrete calls for action for research, practice and politics.

day-care centres --- men --- elementary education --- Kindertagesstätten --- Männer --- Elementarpädagogik

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Tensor network is a fundamental mathematical tool with a huge range of applications in physics, such as condensed matter physics, statistic physics, high energy physics, and quantum information sciences. This open access book aims to explain the tensor network contraction approaches in a systematic way, from the basic definitions to the important applications. This book is also useful to those who apply tensor networks in areas beyond physics, such as machine learning and the big-data analysis. Tensor network originates from the numerical renormalization group approach proposed by K. G. Wilson in 1975. Through a rapid development in the last two decades, tensor network has become a powerful numerical tool that can efficiently simulate a wide range of scientific problems, with particular success in quantum many-body physics. Varieties of tensor network algorithms have been proposed for different problems. However, the connections among different algorithms are not well discussed or reviewed. To fill this gap, this book explains the fundamental concepts and basic ideas that connect and/or unify different strategies of the tensor network contraction algorithms. In addition, some of the recent progresses in dealing with tensor decomposition techniques and quantum simulations are also represented in this book to help the readers to better understand tensor network. This open access book is intended for graduated students, but can also be used as a professional book for researchers in the related fields. To understand most of the contents in the book, only basic knowledge of quantum mechanics and linear algebra is required. In order to fully understand some advanced parts, the reader will need to be familiar with notion of condensed matter physics and quantum information, that however are not necessary to understand the main parts of the book. This book is a good source for non-specialists on quantum physics to understand tensor network algorithms and the related mathematics.

Physics --- Physics --- Quantum physics --- Quantum optics --- Statistical physics --- Machine learning --- Elementary particles (Physics) --- Quantum field theory

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Knowledge of word meanings is critical to success in reading. A reader cannot fully understand a text in which the meaning to a significant number of words is unknown. Vocabulary knowledge has long been correlated with proficiency in reading. Yet, national surveys of student vocabulary knowledge have demonstrated that student growth in vocabulary has been stagnant at best. This volume offers new insights into vocabulary knowledge and vocabulary teaching. Articles range from a presentation of theories of vocabulary that guide instruction to innovative methods and approaches for teaching vocabulary. Special emphasis is placed on teaching academic and disciplinary vocabulary that is critical to success in content area learning. Our hope for this volume is that it may spark a renewed interest in research into vocabulary and vocabulary instruction and move toward making vocabulary instruction an even more integral part of all literacy and disciplinary instruction.

academic vocabulary --- disciplinary literacy --- comprehension --- hip-hop pedagogy --- concept maps --- vocabulary development --- STEM --- academic vocabulary instruction --- morphology --- cognates --- metalinguistic awareness --- elementary classroom teachers --- academic vocabulary --- comprehension --- reading fluency --- middle grades --- vocabulary --- methods --- confirmatory factor analysis --- vocabulary --- content analysis --- practitioners --- teachers --- elementary --- middle school --- high school --- reading theories --- vocabulary achievement --- peer effects --- quantile regression --- mixed-effects models --- vocabulary instruction --- vocabulary activities --- teacher discourse moves --- student responses --- early elementary --- vocabulary --- student learning --- word features

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This first open access volume of the handbook series contains articles on the standard model of particle physics, both from the theoretical and experimental perspective. It also covers related topics, such as heavy-ion physics, neutrino physics and searches for new physics beyond the standard model. A joint CERN-Springer initiative, the “Particle Physics Reference Library” provides revised and updated contributions based on previously published material in the well-known Landolt-Boernstein series on particle physics, accelerators and detectors (volumes 21A,B1,B2,C), which took stock of the field approximately one decade ago. Central to this new initiative is publication under full open access.

Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory --- Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons --- Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics --- Quantum Field Theories, String Theory --- Measurement Science and Instrumentation --- Nuclear Physics --- Accelerator Physics --- Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics --- Standard Model of particle physics --- High energy physics handbook --- Collider physics --- Fundamental particles and forces --- HEP reference work --- experimental particle physics --- Landolt-Boernstein elementary particles --- accelerator physics experiments --- physics of particle detectors --- Open Access --- Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory) --- Atomic & molecular physics --- Particle & high-energy physics --- Statistical physics --- Scientific standards, measurement etc