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Gian-Carlo Wick and neutron physics in the 1930s 20 世纪 30 年代的吉安-卡罗-维克与中子物理学
IF 0.8 4区 物理与天体物理
The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2024-05-08 DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-024-00072-9
Christopher R. Gould, Eduard I. Sharapov
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Correction to: From concrete quarks to QCD: a personal perspective 更正:从具体夸克到 QCD:个人视角
IF 0.8 4区 物理与天体物理
The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2024-04-29 DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-024-00074-7
Chris Llewellyn Smith
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The quantum theory of gravitation, effective field theories, and strings: yesterday and today 量子引力理论、有效场论和弦:昨天和今天
IF 0.8 4区 物理与天体物理
The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2024-04-23 DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-024-00069-4
Alessio Rocci, Thomas Van Riet
{"title":"The quantum theory of gravitation, effective field theories, and strings: yesterday and today","authors":"Alessio Rocci,&nbsp;Thomas Van Riet","doi":"10.1140/epjh/s13129-024-00069-4","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjh/s13129-024-00069-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper analyzes the effective field theory perspective on modern physics through the lens of the quantum theory of gravitational interaction. The historical part argues that the search for a theory of quantum gravity stimulated the change in outlook that characterizes the modern approach to the standard model of particle physics and general relativity. We present some landmarks covering a long period, i.e., from the beginning of the 1930s until 1994, when, according to Steven Weinberg, the modern bottom–up approach to general relativity began. Starting from the first attempt to apply the quantum field theory techniques to quantize Einstein’s theory perturbatively, we explore its developments and interaction with the top–down approach encoded by string theory. In the last part of the paper, we focus on this last approach to describe the relationship between our modern understanding of string theory and effective field theory in today’s panorama. To this end, the non-historical part briefly explains the modern concepts of moduli stabilization and Swampland to understand another change in focus that explains the present framework where some string theorists move.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":791,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal H","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140804901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Revisiting the Frisch–Peierls Memorandum 重温弗里施-佩尔斯备忘录
IF 0.8 4区 物理与天体物理
The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2024-04-08 DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-024-00070-x
B. Cameron Reed
{"title":"Revisiting the Frisch–Peierls Memorandum","authors":"B. Cameron Reed","doi":"10.1140/epjh/s13129-024-00070-x","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjh/s13129-024-00070-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper analyzes the physics of the famous 1940 Frisch–Peierls memorandum, which examined the possibility of creating a nuclear weapon utilizing a fast-neutron chain reaction with uranium-235. While Frisch and Peierls’ estimate of the critical mass was far too low, their analysis was fundamentally sound. I also survey the role of the memorandum in the overall history of wartime nuclear developments, and its prescient predictions of aspects of the Cold War.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":791,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal H","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140572905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The breakup of gas bubbles by a shock wave: brief historical background 冲击波击碎气泡:历史背景简介
IF 0.8 4区 物理与天体物理
The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-024-00071-w
Igor V. Minin, Oleg V. Minin
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The development of computational methods for Feynman diagrams 费曼图计算方法的发展
IF 0.8 4区 物理与天体物理
The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-024-00067-6
Robert V. Harlander, Jean-Philippe Martinez
{"title":"The development of computational methods for Feynman diagrams","authors":"Robert V. Harlander,&nbsp;Jean-Philippe Martinez","doi":"10.1140/epjh/s13129-024-00067-6","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjh/s13129-024-00067-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Over the last 70 years, Feynman diagrams have played an essential role in the development of many theoretical predictions derived from the standard model Lagrangian. In fact, today they have become an essential and seemingly irreplaceable tool in quantum field theory calculations. In this article, we propose to explore the development of computational methods for Feynman diagrams with a special focus on their automation, drawing insights from both theoretical physics and the history of science. From the latter perspective, the article particularly investigates the emergence of computer algebraic programs, such as the pioneering <span>SCHOONSCHIP</span>, <span>REDUCE</span>, and <span>ASHMEDAI</span>, designed to handle the intricate calculations associated with Feynman diagrams. This sheds light on the many challenges faced by physicists when working at higher orders in perturbation theory and reveal, as exemplified by the test of the validity of quantum electrodynamics at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, the indispensable necessity of computer-assisted procedures. In the second part of the article, a comprehensive overview of the current state of the algorithmic evaluation of Feynman diagrams is presented from a theoretical point of view. It emphasizes the key algorithmic concepts employed in modern perturbative quantum field theory computations and discusses the achievements, ongoing challenges, and potential limitations encountered in the application of the Feynman diagrammatic method. Accordingly, we attribute the enduring significance of Feynman diagrams in contemporary physics to two main factors: the highly algorithmic framework developed by physicists to tackle these diagrams and the successful advancement of algebraic programs used to process the involved calculations associated with them.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":791,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal H","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjh/s13129-024-00067-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140005660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The 50th anniversary of the coupled channels Born approximation (CCBA) and the coupled reaction channels (CRC) theories of nucleon transfer reactions (a unique interplay between theory, experiment and computer technology, conducted during the most tumultuous period in modern American society) 耦合通道伯恩近似(CCBA)和耦合反应通道(CRC)核子传递反应理论(在美国现代社会最动荡的时期进行的理论、实验和计算机技术之间的独特相互作用)问世 50 周年
IF 0.8 4区 物理与天体物理
The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-023-00060-5
Robert J. Ascuitto, Jan S. Vaagen
{"title":"The 50th anniversary of the coupled channels Born approximation (CCBA) and the coupled reaction channels (CRC) theories of nucleon transfer reactions (a unique interplay between theory, experiment and computer technology, conducted during the most tumultuous period in modern American society)","authors":"Robert J. Ascuitto,&nbsp;Jan S. Vaagen","doi":"10.1140/epjh/s13129-023-00060-5","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjh/s13129-023-00060-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Nucleon transfer reactions have played a fundamental role in understanding the single-particle components, shell structure and collective properties of atomic nuclei. The conventional distorted wave Born approximation (DWBA) envisioned the nucleon transfer reaction as a one-step process, which proceeds directly from the ground state of the target nucleus to a state of the residual nucleus. The coupled channels Born approximation (CCBA) and coupled reaction channels (CRC) theories evolved because a number of nucleon transfer reaction cross sections could not be reconciled within the DWBA. These coupled channels models revealed that, in addition to the “one-step” process of the DWBA, “multi-step” nucleon transfer processes involving accessary pathways can participate in populating the final nuclear state. In the CCBA, the auxiliary pathways involved inelastic excitations of the target and/or residual nucleus, whereas, in the CRC, the pathways included sequential nucleon transfer passing through nuclear states of an intermediate partition. Coherent addition of contributions from one-step and multi-step nucleon transfer processes resulted in dramatic alterations in reaction cross sections, which were experimentally confirmed. The CCBA and CRC linked the structure of the nuclei participating in a reaction to modalities of nucleon transfer arising during the relative motion between the interacting ions. These complementary theories inexorably changed physicists’ interpretations of nucleon transfer reactions and, in doing so, heralded in the new field of direct heavy-ion reactions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":791,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal H","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjh/s13129-023-00060-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139664470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Addressing the problem of the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA visibility in the scientific literature 解决 LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA 在科学文献中的能见度问题
IF 0.8 4区 物理与天体物理
The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2024-01-25 DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-023-00066-z
Pablo Barneo, Giuseppe Cabras, Pierre-Francois Cohadon, Livia Conti, Davide Guerra, Edoardo Milotti, Jerome Novak, Agata Trovato, Andrea Virtuoso
{"title":"Addressing the problem of the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA visibility in the scientific literature","authors":"Pablo Barneo,&nbsp;Giuseppe Cabras,&nbsp;Pierre-Francois Cohadon,&nbsp;Livia Conti,&nbsp;Davide Guerra,&nbsp;Edoardo Milotti,&nbsp;Jerome Novak,&nbsp;Agata Trovato,&nbsp;Andrea Virtuoso","doi":"10.1140/epjh/s13129-023-00066-z","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjh/s13129-023-00066-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As members of the Virgo Collaboration—one of the large scientific collaborations that explore the universe of gravitational waves together with the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the KAGRA Collaboration—we became aware of biased citation practices that exclude Virgo, as well as KAGRA, from achievements that collectively belong to the wider LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Collaboration. Here, we frame these practices in the context of Merton’s “Matthew effect”, extending the reach of this well-studied cognitive bias to include large international scientific collaborations. We provide qualitative evidence of its occurrence, displaying the network of links among published papers in the scientific literature related to Gravitational Wave science. We note how the keyword “LIGO” is linked to a much larger number of papers and variety of subjects than the keyword “Virgo”. We support these qualitative observations with a quantitative study based on a year-long monitoring of the relevant literature, where we scan all new preprints appearing in the arXiv electronic preprint database. Over the course of one year, we identified all preprints failing to assign due credits to Virgo. As a further step, we undertook positive actions by asking the authors of problematic papers to correct them. Here, we also report on a more in-depth investigation which we performed on problematic preprints that appeared in the first three months of the period under consideration, checking how frequently their authors reacted positively to our request and corrected their papers. Finally, we measure the global impact of papers classified as problematic and observe that, thanks to the changes implemented in response to our requests, the global impact (measured as the number of citations of papers which still contain Virgo visibility issues) was halved. We conclude the paper with general considerations for future work in a wider perspective.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":791,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal H","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139554442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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How a falling apple could have helped Newton discover universal gravity 掉落的苹果如何帮助牛顿发现万有引力
IF 1 4区 物理与天体物理
The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2024-01-12 DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-023-00065-0
Gennady Gorelik
{"title":"How a falling apple could have helped Newton discover universal gravity","authors":"Gennady Gorelik","doi":"10.1140/epjh/s13129-023-00065-0","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjh/s13129-023-00065-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The article delves into the intriguing disagreement among historians of science regarding the origin of the idea of universal gravity. Prominent researchers of the genesis of Newton's Principia did not believe that he could have come up with this idea in 1666, after observing a falling apple, as he claimed. On the other hand, prominent biographers of Newton did believe. The proposed key to solving this paradox is a thought experiment described in Newton's manuscript, ‘The System of the World,’ which preceded the creation of his ‘Principia.’ According to the proposed ‘subjunctive’ scenario, it was possible to come from the motion of a projectile to the concept of universal gravity, relying only on the knowledge and skills of Galileo in 1611.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":791,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal H","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139430962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Analogue gravity and the Hawking effect: historical perspective and literature review 模拟引力与霍金效应:历史视角与文献综述
IF 1 4区 物理与天体物理
The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2023-12-04 DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-023-00063-2
Carla R. Almeida, Maxime J. Jacquet
{"title":"Analogue gravity and the Hawking effect: historical perspective and literature review","authors":"Carla R. Almeida,&nbsp;Maxime J. Jacquet","doi":"10.1140/epjh/s13129-023-00063-2","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjh/s13129-023-00063-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Reasoning by analogies permeates theoretical developments in physics and astrophysics, motivated by the unreachable nature of many phenomena at play. For example, analogies have been used to understand black hole physics, leading to the development of a thermodynamic theory for these objects and the discovery of the Hawking effect. The latter, which results from quantum field theory on black hole space-times, changed the way physicists approached this subject: what had started as a mere aid to understanding becomes a possible source of evidence via the research programme of “analogue gravity” that builds on analogue models for field effects. Some of these analogue models may and can be realised in the laboratory, allowing experimental tests of field effects. Here, we present a historical perspective on the connection between the Hawking effect and analogue models. We also present a literature review of current research, bringing history and contemporary physics together. We argue that the history of analogue gravity and the Hawking effect is divided into three distinct phases based on how and why analogue models have been used to investigate fields in the vicinity of black holes. Furthermore, we find that modern research signals a transition to a new phase, where the impetus for the use of analogue models has surpassed the problem they were originally designed to solve.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":791,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal H","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138485096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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