Physics and Astronomy

"Alexander Chao's Lectures on Accelerator Physics is a clearly written textbook covering all the important aspects of the subject, emphasizing physical concepts and the richness of the field. I believe that it will become the standard reference text for students and anyone working in this area, so important in many parts of modern science, from the exploration of the atomic/molecular structure of matter with synchrotron radiation and free-electron lasers to that of the ultimate structure of elementary particles."

"In this remarkably well-written text, the authors introduce readers gently to the conceptual bricks of LQG without using any mathematics (quite an achievement). The debate started with the discovery that the space-time geometry of general relativity can be written in terms of the electromagnetic field. This led to intersecting graphs called loops. Now known as spin networks, they are the foundations of LQG..."