Physics References

Particle Data Group (PDG) site - vital reference source with some nice reviews QCD resources - complete list of books and articles about QCD

• General Nuclear Physics
  • Hands, Simon, "The Phase Diagram of QCD" - a nice pedagogical review of QCD and its conjectured thermodynamics

• Light Mesons
  • General References
    • Curtis Meyer, HUGS 1999 Lecture on Light and Exotic Mesons
    • C. A. Meyer, Y. Van Haarlem, The Status of Exotic-quantum-number Mesons
  • GlueX
    • PAC 30 overview of GlueX and PAC 36 update
    • GlueX physics analysis page (with references)
• Statistical Analysis
  • G. Cowan, Topics in statistical data analysis for high-energy physics, 2010
  • Luc Demortier, Louis Lyons, Everything you always wanted to know about pulls
  • Luc Demortier, P Values: What They Are and How to Use Them
• Detector-oriented References
  • Rudolf Bock's "Detector Briefbook" - introduction to particle detector techniques and related physics concepts