Encyclopedia of Particle Physics, Four Volume Set offers an authoritative gateway to the literature for graduate and postgraduate students, early career researchers, and physicists, particularly those focused on hadron and particle physics within and beyond the Standard Model. It delivers comprehensive coverage of electroweak and Higgs physics, neutrino physics, hadron physics, core theoretical concepts, key experiments, and emerging directions beyond the Standard Model. Bringing clarity to a complex and rapidly evolving field, this four-volume set serves as an indispensable, one-stop foundational reference that researchers will return to time and again.
- Contains approximately 165 chapters written by global experts in hadron and particle physics
- Provides an overview of the large variety of ongoing and planned experiments in hadron and particle physics, including coverage of general experimental concepts across all existing major international facilities and experiments.
- Provides the ideal foundational introduction to the topic for students new to the field
Since 2012, Christian S. Fischer has been Full Professor for Theoretical Hadron Physics at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. He was educated at the University of Tübingen, where he received his PhD in Theoretical Physics in 2003 and an MSc-degree in Philosophy in 2000. After postdoc positions at the University of Heidelberg, Germany and the Institute of Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) in Durham, UK, he was awarded with a joint Helmholtz-University Young-Investigator-Grant at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy-Ion Research in 2007. His research includes various topics in Hadron Physics and Heavy-Ion Physics with connections to Astrophysics and Particle Physics. A particular focus are topics associated with experiments at the FAIR facility in Darmstadt: he is vice-director of the Helmholtz Research Academy Hesse for FAIR and spokesperson of the theory advisory group of the PANDA collaboration. Christian S. Fischer is Editor-in-Chief of the Review Journal 'Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics'. He has been Director of the 'International School for Nuclear Physics' since 2022, a yearly conference series hosted by the Ettore Majorana Foundation in Erice, Sicily. The School brings together international experts and young researchers in the fields of Nuclear Physics, Hadron Physics, Heavy-Ion Physics and Neutrino Physics since 1971. At his home university, Christian S. Fischer is very active in teaching Bachelor and Masters courses and he loves presenting science to the public in the Saturday morning lecture series 'Physik im Blick’.
