Andre Rubbia (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich)

Phenomenology of Particle Physics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written for a two-semester graduate course on particle physics, this text offers a rigorous treatment of the phenomenology of particle physics that remains accessible to experimental students. It is richly illustrated and features detailed examples that link theory to experimental results, and it includes more than 100 end-of-chapter problems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 1110
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 208mm x 54mm
• Gewicht: 2740g
• ISBN-13: 9781316519349
• ISBN-10: 1316519341
• Artikelnr.: 62648956

Autorenporträt

André Rubbia is a professor in experimental particle physics at ETH Zurich. After obtaining his Ph.D. in particle physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he worked on the research staff at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. His research interests include high-energy physics and, in particular, studies of neutrino properties, and he has been a primary contributor to the development of novel particle detectors. He has proposed, developed, and led several international projects in Europe, Asia, and the USA. While continuing his focus on research in particle physics, he has acquired an extended experience in teaching undergraduate and Master's-level courses.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction and notation
2. Basic concepts
3. Overview of accelerators and detectors
4. Non-relativistic quantum mechanics
5. Relativistic formulation and kinematics
6. The Lagrangian formalism
7. Free boson fields
8. Free fermion dirac fields
9. Interacting fields and propagator theory
10. Quantum electrodynamics (QED)
11. Computations in QED
12. QED radiative corrections
13. Tests of QED at high energy
14. Tests of QED at low energy
15. Hadrons
16. Electron-proton scattering
17. Partons
18. Quantum chromodynamics (QCD)
19. Experimental tests of QCD
20. Heavy quarks: charm and bottom
21. Neutrinos and the three lepton families
22. Parity violation in weak interactions
23. The weak charged current interaction
24. Gauge field theories and spontaneous symmetry breaking
25. The electroweak theory
26. Computations in the electroweak theory
27. Experimental tests of the electroweak theory
28. Neutrino-nucleon interactions
29. Completing the standard model
30. Flavor oscillations and CP violation
31. Beyond the standard model
32. Outlook
Appendix A Mathematical and calculus tools
Appendix B. Linear algebra tools
Appendix C. Notions of non-relativistic quantum mechanics
Appendix D. Lorentz transformations and 4D mathematical tools
Appendix E. Dirac matrices and trace theorems
Appendix F. Some tools to compute higher order diagrams
Appendix G. Statistics
Appendix H. Monte-Carlo techniques
Textbooks
References
Index.