Pascal Paganini (Paris Ecole Polytechnique)

Fundamentals of Particle Physics

Understanding the Standard Model

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A modern introduction to the Standard Model of particle physics written for a two-semester course at graduate or advanced undergraduate level. Bridging between basic descriptive books and purely theoretical works, it presents all aspects of the field, including step-by-step explanations of the theory and the most recent experimental results.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 550
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 262mm x 179mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1234g
• ISBN-13: 9781009171588
• ISBN-10: 1009171585
• Artikelnr.: 67792309

Autorenporträt

Pascal Paganini is a professor at the École Polytechnique near Paris and researcher at CNRS, where he has lectured for many years on particle physics for undergraduate and graduate students. As an experimental particle physicist, he has engaged in several experiments at CERN, including the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. More recently, he has been involved in the Super-Kamiokande neutrino experiment in Japan, and designing its next-generation successor, Hyper-Kamiokande.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Notation and Constants
1. Particle physics landscape
2. Preliminary concepts: special relativity and quantum mechanics
3. Collisions and decays
4. Conservation rules and symmetries
5. From wave functions to quantum fields
6. A brief overview of quantum electrodynamics
7. From hadrons to partons
8. Quantum Chromodynamics
9. Weak interaction
10. Electroweak interaction
11. Electroweak symmetry breaking
12. The Standard Model and beyond
Appendix A. Elements of group theory for particle physics
Appendix B. Special Unitary group SU(2)
Appendix C. Special Unitary group SU(3) and SU(N)
Appendix D. Lorentz and Poincaré groups
Appendix E. Calculating with the Dirac delta distribution
Appendix F. Contour integration in the complex plane
Appendix G. Useful formulas with ¿ matrices
Appendix H. Fermi's golden rule and time dependent perturbation
References
Index.