Heavy Quark Effective Theory (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics)

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This up-to-date review also serves as an introduction to Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET) - a new approach to heavy quark physics problems in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Heavy quark physics is one of the most active areas of high-energy physics, especially at this time when B-factories at SLAC and KEK are producing high-quality results, and yet other facilities are being developed. HQET has already led to significant progress in our understanding of heavy quark physics during the last 10 years. The book also contains a detailed discussion of the methods of calculation used in HQET, along with numerous illustrations.

Heavy Flavour Physics Theory and Experimental Results in Heavy Quark Physics (Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics)

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Heavy Flavour Physics Theory and Experimental Results in Heavy Quark Physics (Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics)

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B-factories at SLAC and KEK started producing high quality results in 2001, while preparations for B physics at the LHC continue. Heavy Flavour Physics: Theory and Experimental Results in Heavy Quark Physics provides an introduction to and overview of recent developments in theory and experiments relevant to the physics of heavy flavors, particularly that of the b quark. The book reviews the field thoroughly from both experimental and theoretical perspectives. It includes important background material on the standard model, CP violation, lattice quantum chromodynamics, and Kaon decay experiments. Chapters are written by international experts and the whole book has been carefully edited to provide a coherent account of the field. The level is suitable for junior postdoctoral researchers and postgraduate students in particle physics.

Heavy Quark Physics (Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology)

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Heavy Quark Physics (Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology)
Aneesh V. Manohar , and Mark B. Wise
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Understanding the physics of heavy quarks gives physicists the unique opportunity to test the predictions of Quantum Chromodynamics and the Standard Model. Heavy Quark Physics provides an exciting introduction to this new area of high energy physics. Two leading experts in the field review the standard model, the basics of heavy quark spin-flavor symmetry, and detail how it can be applied to the classification of states, decays and fragmentation. The heavy quark effective theory is developed, including the radiative and 1/mQ corrections, and applied to the study of hadron masses, form factors, and inclusive decay rates. The authors also discuss the application of chiral perturbation theory to heavy hadrons. To aid the reader, many of the key calculations are performed step by step, and problems are provided at the end of each chapter. This lucid volume provides graduate students with an ideal introduction to the physics of heavy quarks, and more experienced researchers with an authoritative reference to the subject.

Heavy Quark Physics (Lecture Notes in Physics)

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Heavy Quark Physics (Lecture Notes in Physics)

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This volume covers the main topics in heavy flavour physics in a comprehensive yet accessible way. The material is presented as a combination of extensive introductory lectures and more typical contributions. This book will benefit postgraduate students and reseachers alike.

HEAVY QUARK PHYSICS, (Aip Conference Proceedings)

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Heavy Quark Physics: Proceedings of the 138th We-Heraeus Seminar : Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany December 14-16, 1994 (Bad Honnef, 14-16 December 1994)

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Heavy Quark Physics: Proceedings of the 138th We-Heraeus Seminar : Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany December 14-16, 1994 (Bad Honnef, 14-16 December 1994)
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Heavy Quarks at Fixed Target (AIP Conference Proceedings / High Energy Physics)

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This conference provided a comprehensive overview of the areas where fixed target experiments made significant contributions so that experimenters could see what work was left to be done. Since experiments at colliders contribute strongly in many of these areas, the participation of collider experimenters was welcomed and this edition of the conference contains many contributions from the collider community. In order to try to cover the huge amount of physics included in studies of heavy quarks, many of the contributions are review types, including both theoretical and experimental overviews in seven different areas: CP violation and mixing; heavy ions; production dynamics and structure functions; hadronic decays; semileptonic and leptonic decays; spectroscopy; and rare and forbidden decays. This volume is divided into these seven areas of interest.

High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions and Quark Degrees of Freedom in Nuclei

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International Symposium on Production and Decay of Heavy Flavors (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol 535)

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The IVth International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics: QNP 2006

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The IVth International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics: QNP 2006

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The QNP series of international conferences on Quarks and Nuclear Physics is by now a well established and highly respected forum where the most recent developments in the field are discussed and communicated. QNP 2006 is the forth edition of this biennial meeting.

Selected and refereed original contributions of QNP 2006 have been published in The European Physical Journal A - Hadrons and Nuclei (EPJ A), while the present proceedings book, in addition to reprinting the articles published in EPJ A, further includes all other contributions selected and accepted by the organizing committee for publication and archiving.

Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It
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Rational Self-Interest

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Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It
Craig Biddle
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Loving Life demonstrates that morality is a matter not of divine revelation or social convention or personal opinion -- but, rather, of the factual requirements of human life and happiness. Biddle shows how a true morality is derived logically from observable facts, what in essence such a morality demands, and why it is a matter of pure self-interest.

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Rational Self-Interest.......2007-07-25

This book is an important milestone in the philosophical discussion of the reason people need to practice rational self-interest. Biddle updates for the modern reader arguments for rational self-interest that were advanced by Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden 50 years ago. His style is easy-going and understandable for the lay reader of the philosophical arguments for rational self interest. He also fully explicates the falsehoods of the alternatives: mysticism, personal subjectivism, and social subjectivism.
Definitely a bell that needs to be rung again and again. Biddle does an excellent job of updating the arguments for rational self-interest.

Start With the Fundamentals.......2007-05-03

Over the past year I have been trying to increase my knowledge of Objectivism by making a commitment to studying the fundamentals of the philosophy. At times this has been difficult due to my lack of philosophical training, but, _Loving Life_ has made a tremendous impact on my learning. It is the most clear and concise representation of Ayn Rand's morality of self-interest that I have read to date. Craig Biddle does an excellent job of explaining the different aspects of it in layman's terms, and for that, I am very thankful.

The Ayn Rand Institute offers a recommended reading list for those who want to learn more about Objectivism. I think _Loving Life_ should be placed right before Leonard Piekoff's OPAR for those who want to gain a clearer understanding of Objectivism's moral fundamentals before going into more detail that OPAR offers.

If you've just recently discovered Ayn Rand's works and are looking for a good starting point for studying her philosophy, Craig Biddle's _Loving Life_ is a most excellent choice.

A Good Introduction to Ayn Rand's Ethics.......2005-11-19

_Loving Life_ is an excellent short introduction to Ayn Rand's ethics, particularly for people who find her writings too condensed or too polemical. Unlike the convoluted and rationalistic writings typically produced by academics, Craig Biddle's writing is clear and engaging. His plethora of examples not only illustrate the ideas under discussion, but also show their real-life importance.

I particularly enjoyed Biddle's discussion of physical force as invalidating an individual's judgment in Chapter 7 since so many people struggle to understand that point. (I had some minor technical quibbles with the book, most notably the confusing structure in the discussion of the virtues of rationality and productiveness. Those problems are unlikely to cause any significant confusion in the mind of the reader, however.)

I can highly recommend the book for someone curious about Ayn Rand's ethics.

A remarkable book.......2005-10-23

Loving Life explains with great clarity and simplicity the fundamentals of moral values and happiness, and why a person should follow the dictates of his reason and reject faith. This is a book everybody should read.

Ayn Rand Made Easy.......2004-08-28

Most people who are interested in Ayn Rand were probably introduced to her via her ethics and politics. Although her followers consider her theory of concept formation her greatest achievement, what grips most of her casual admirers is her ethical theory (rational selfishness) and politics (libertarianism). Unfortunately, there is no introduction that focuses on these aspects of her thought. In LOVING LIFE, Objectivist writer Craig Biddle attempts to remedy this defect with a primer on Rand's ethics and politics (although ethics gets more attention).

Biddle's book has strengths and weaknesses. Biddle writes in an exciting and fast-paced manner and provides examples and illustrations of the points he makes. Unfortunately, Biddle writes too quickly and certain points of difficulty are glossed over. Even a philosophical primer should take some notice of potential weaknesses and counter-arguments, and in this respect LOVING LIFE fails to live up to its potential.

In explaining Objectivist ethics, Biddle presents several examples that appear to support Rand's claim of the relationship between life, morality, happiness, and productiveness. He mentions a corrupt bank teller and a car thief. Such individuals will get caught and be unhappy. Of course, many people who cheat and steal get caught. But many don't and in fact live quite successfully by being parasites on others. Don't these counter-examples indicate that I can advance my happiness by non-rational, non-productive means? Rather than confront these objections head-on, Mr. Biddle equivocates on the meaning of happiness. Yes, these people may appear to be happy, but they really aren't. Yes, they may have self-esteem, but it isn't the type of self-esteem that a "truly human" person would want, etc. (Incidentally, I am curious about how the claim that bad acts lead to unhappiness is consistent with the Objectivist belief in a tabula rasa mind and denial of instincts.) Lest you think I'm making this up, Biddle tells us that "[r]egardless of what they say, personal subjectivists are miserable people . . . ." [P. 29.] How does Biddle know this? Certainly Biddle's on-the-fly conclusions are inconsistent with his commitment to empiricism. If our only source of knowledge is through the senses, then Biddle should produce the empirical studies demonstrating that swindlers get caught, car thieves are unhappy, and scoundrels have low self-esteem.

There is a further problem with Biddle's discussion of lying. According to him, liars try to "fake reality." Although their lies may appear to work, they will ultimately catch up with them because they are in "conflict with reality." [P. 78.] Yet to be accurate liars (or at least the good ones) don't necessarily "fake reality" -- their understanding of reality is often more sophisticated than the people they deceive. Consider the forty-second president: he understood political reality better than his opponents, who consistently overplayed their hand.

There also are several other problems with LOVING LIFE, only three of which I'll mention:

1. Biddle, like Rand, presents a caricatured history of philosophy. His attack on Hume is extremely unfair. Hume did not despise reason or consider it irrelevant in moral considerations. Readers might consult Donald Livingston's book PHILOSOPHICAL MELANCHOLY AND DELERIUM for a more balanced picture of the philosopher who may have influenced the founding fathers more than any other. Of course, what would a book by an Objectivist be without an attack on Kant? Curiously, Biddle mentions Kant only once, and argues that he was the father of "social subjectivism." This is a complete misrepresentation of Kant's views since Kant believed the structures of the mind are fixed and the principles of morality binding on everyone whether he likes it or not.

2. Biddle takes Tertullian's famous statement "it is to be believed because it is absurd" out of context. [P. 16.] Tertullian wasn't making a generalized claim that religious beliefs are irrational or absurd, thus somehow enhancing their believability. Rather, he was discussing a particular belief of the heretic Marcion. Marcion rejected the Christian dogma that Christ had a literal body. Tertullian argued that Marcion's rejection of this belief paradoxically made it more likely. In fact, James Moffat argued in 1916 that Tertullian's famous statement was actually an example of an Aristotelian type of argumentation. Tertullian was arguing, in effect, that since it was so unlikely that God would appear in the flesh, the fact that people believe such a thing lends credibility because no one would make it up. [Journal of Theological Studies 17 (1916) pp. 170-1 (which is available on the web).] Say what you want about Tertullian's reasoning, he probably wasn't the irrationalist that Biddle makes him out to be. He had a high opinion of reason as a gift of God and used the arguments of pagan philosophers when appropriate. [See R.E. Roberts, THE THEOLOGY OF TERTULLIAN, pp. 63-78 (also available on the web).]

3. Biddle quotes from Hermann Rauschning's alleged talks with Adolf Hitler. [P. 40.] Rauschning was a Nazi leader in Danzig who met Hitler on a few occasions. He was never a confidant of Hitler's, making his claim that Hitler revealed his most private thoughts to him is rather unlikely. Hitler's definitive biographer Ian Kershaw does not consider the Rauschning material trustworthy. [See Kershaw, HITLER, vol. 1, p. xiv.] Richard Steigmann-Gall calls it "highly questionable" and says that the consensus among historians is that it is "fraudulent." [THE HOLY REICH, pp. 28-29.]

LOVING LIFE is a good overview of Rand's ethics and, by its omissions, helps highlight certain problems in Rand's arguments. Readers wanting a more detailed discussion of Objectivist ethics should consult Tara Smith's books.

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The Morality of Happiness
Julia Annas
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Ancient ethical theories, based on the notions of virtue and happiness, have struck many as an attractive alternative to modern theories. But we cannot find out whether this is true until we understand ancient ethics--and to do this we need to examine the basic structure of ancient ethical theory, not just the details of one or two theories. In this book, Annas brings together the results of a wide-ranging study of ancient ethical philosophy and presents it in a way that is easily accessible to anyone with an interest in ancient or modern ethics. She examines the fundamental notions of happiness and virtue, the role of nature in ethical justification and the relation between concern for self and concern for others. Her careful examination of the ancient debates and arguments shows that many widespread assumptions about ancient ethics are quite mistaken. Ancient ethical theories are not egoistic, and do not depend for their acceptance on metaphysical theories of a teleological kind. Most centrally, they are recognizably theories of morality, and the ancient disputes about the place of virtue in happiness can be seen as akin to modern disputes about the demands of morality.

Human Happiness and Morality: A Brief Introduction to Ethics

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Human Happiness and Morality: A Brief Introduction to Ethics
Robert F. Almeder
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An excellent introduction to ethics and ethical issues........2000-03-05

Robert Almeder's Human Happiness And Morality provides an excellent introduction to ethics and ethical issues. From the elements necessary for a harmonious relationship and happiness to traditional pursuits of morality, this reveals some easy rules for simple living.

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Beyond Virtue: Integrity and Morality
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>Beyond Virtue < explores the concept of integrity and its implications for various aspects of morality including virtue, moral law, autonomy and personhood. It also uses the concept of integrity to analyse elements of Aquinas's ethics including the place of the emotions in morality, the appearance and role of the body, mortal and transcendent happiness, and virtue.

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Catholic and Protestant Countries Compared in Civilization, Popular Happiness, General Intelligence and Morality

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Sex, Love and Morality: A Rational Code of Sexual Ethics Based Upon the Highest Principle of Morality -- the Principle of Human Happiness

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Sex, Love and Morality: A Rational Code of Sexual Ethics Based Upon the Highest Principle of Morality -- the Principle of Human Happiness

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Sex, Love And Morality: A Rational Code Of Sexual Ethics Based Upon The Highest Principle Of Morality, The Principle Of Human Happiness
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