My first thanks go to the CRC editorial and technical staff: Kris Iniewski for encouraging me to write this book, Nora Konopka, Jennifer Ahringer and Sashi Kumar for their technical assistance. I am particularly in debt with Nora for her constant support and her endless patience in accepting a few delays as the number of pages was growing beyond my original intention.
Many persons have helped me in the preparation of the manuscript. Gian Franco Dalla Betta (University of Trento) and Gianluigi De Geronimo (Brookhaven National Laboratory) reviewed some not-so-easy concepts presented in the text. Thanushan Kugathasan (CERN) took the burden of cross-checking many cumbersome mathematical derivations.
My co-workers and PhD students ...
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