J.D. Wells. Resource Manuscripts. Ann Arbor, MI: 2011-2020.
This collection is intended primarily as a repository of otherwise unpublished resource notes of potential interest to students and scholars. Click on the symbol ♦ to go to pdf file.
Particle Physics, Gravity, Cosmology
♦ Lectures on symmetries and interactions of particle physics (2013)
♦ Sensitivity scaling for dim-6 operators at high-energy e+e- colliders (2013)
♦ Natural units conversions and fundamental constants (2016)
♦ Neutron-antineutron oscillations (2018)
♦ The discovery of the Higgs boson opens up new puzzles (2020)
Physical Sciences
♦ Uranium-235 and Uranium-238 fractions throughout geological time (2018)
Mathematics & Statistics
♦ Rotationally invariant integrals of arbitrary dimensions (2014)
History & Philosophy of Physics
♦ Beauty and truth in theoretical physics (2020)
♦ Lexicon of Theory Qualities (2018)
♦ Q&A on Naturalness and Extra-Empirical Theory Assessments (2018)
♦ Naturalness, Supersymmetry, and Predictions for New Physics at the LHC (2018)
♦ Cicero on cosmology: extracts & commentaries (2016)
♦ Heisenberg’s failed prophecy for particle physics (2002)
♦ Prof. von Jolly’s prediction for the end of theoretical physics (2016)
Studying, Learning & Teaching
♦ Student petitions his professor, Russia 1899 (2013)
♦ What endures from school: extracts & commentaries (2016)
♦ You must study the masters: extracts & commentaries (2016)
♦ The whole art of learning: extracts & commentaries (2020)
Habits of Success
♦ Advice on becoming a true scientist from Sinclair Lewis (2011)
♦ Traits of extraordinary achievers (2016)
♦ Determine never to be idle: extracts & commentaries (2016)
Science Praxis
♦ Citation inflation and its remedies (2016)
♦ Completing the Hirsch h-index (2014)
Science & Public Policy
♦ Science background to North Korea’s nuclear bomb program (2011)
♦ High-voltage DC transmission lines (2011)
Language & Communication
♦ English-German Particle Physics Vocabulary (2013)
♦ Suggestions for English Spelling in International Reports (2013)
♦ Cultivate the ethic of the essential: extracts & commentaries (2016)
Miscellaneous
♦ 1936, the year of the first Field’s Medalist, and the year MIT kicked him out (2014)
♦ Reflective versus reflexive novels in modernity (2012)
♦ The perfection of analysis: extracts & commentaries (2020)
