W N Cottingham, D A Greenwood

An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

New edition introductory graduate textbook on the Standard Model of particle physics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9781009401722
• ISBN-10: 1009401726
• Artikelnr.: 68319999

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Notation
1. The particle physicist's view of nature
2. Lorentz transformations
3. The Lagrangian formulation of mechanics
4. Classical electromagnetism
5. The Dirac equation and the Dirac field
6. Free space solutions of the Dirac equation
7. Electrodynamics
8. Quantising fields: QED
9. The weak interaction: low energy phenomenology
10. Symmetry breaking in model theories
11. Massive gauge fields
12. The Weinberg-Salam electroweak theory for leptons
13. Experimental tests of the Weinberg-Salam theory
14. The electromagnetic and weak interactions of quarks
15. The hadronic decays of the Z and W bosons
16. The theory of strong interactions: quantum chromodynamics
17. Quantum chromodynamics: calculations
18. The Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix
19. Neutrino masses and mixing
20. Neutrino masses and mixing: experimental results
21. Majorana neutrinos
22. Anomalies
Epilogue
Appendix A. An aide-memoire on matrices
Appendix B. The groups of the Standard Model
Appendix C. Annihilation and creation operators
Appendix D. The parton model
Appendix E. Mass matrices and mixing
References
Hints to selected problems
Index.