Paul Langacker

The Standard Model and Beyond

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Standard Model and Beyond, Second Edition, presents an advanced introduction to the physics and formalism of the standard model and other non-abelian gauge theories. It provides a solid background for understanding supersymmetry, string theory, extra dimensions, dynamical symmetry breaking, and cosmology. The book covers the development of the technology of particle physics, including Feynman diagrams and relevant group theory. The first edition was highly praised. This second edition brings the physics up to date after the first run of the LHC, and includes new material on the Higgs boson; neutrino mass and mixing; collider physics; dark matter; flavor physics; and electroweak physics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 636
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 185mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1369g
• ISBN-13: 9781498763219
• ISBN-10: 1498763219
• Artikelnr.: 48682114

Autorenporträt

Paul Langacker is an Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a Senior Scientist at Princeton University and a long-term visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study. His research has emphasized the connections between fundamental theory and experiment, and has included work in precision electroweak physics, grand unification, neutrino physics, Z' physics, and string phenomenology.

Inhaltsangabe

Notation and Conventions
Review of Perturbative Field Theory
Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Symmetries
Gauge Theories
The Strong Interactions and QCD
Collider Physics
The Weak Interactions
The Standard Electroweak Theory
Neutrino Mass and Mixing
Beyond the Standard Model
Appendix A: Canonical Commutation Rules
Appendix B: Derivation of a Simple Feynman Diagram
Appendix C: Unitarity, the Partial Wave Expansion, and the Optical Theorem
Appendix D: Two, Three, and nBody Phase Space
Appendix E: Calculation of the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Electron
Appendix F: BreitWigner Resonances
Appendix G: Implications of P, C, T, and Gparity for Nucleon Matrix
Elements
Appendix H: Quantum Mechanical Analogs of Symmetry Breaking

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Notation and Conventions

Review of Perturbative Field Theory

Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Symmetries

Gauge Theories

The Strong Interactions and QCD

Collider Physics

The Weak Interactions

The Standard Electroweak Theory

Neutrino Mass and Mixing

Beyond the Standard Model

Appendix A: Canonical Commutation Rules

Appendix B: Derivation of a Simple Feynman Diagram

Appendix C: Unitarity, the Partial Wave Expansion, and the Optical Theorem

Appendix D: Two, Three, and nBody Phase Space

Appendix E: Calculation of the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Electron

Appendix F: BreitWigner Resonances

Appendix G: Implications of P, C, T, and Gparity for Nucleon Matrix Elements

Appendix H: Quantum Mechanical Analogs of Symmetry Breaking

Rezensionen

"The textbook by Paul Langacker gives a comprehensive...overview about the Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physics and beyond.... the full Standard Model including mathematical foundations and current experimental references is fully reviewed. After each chapter, the reader finds quite an extensive set of problems which allows [them] to deepen the previously learned knowledge...The book is clearly not intended to serve theorists in their daily life but rather an experimental physicist to understand the theory behind and perform some simple calculations. However, as a kind of compendium and standard reference it is a worthy tool for everybody in the field."

-Wolfgang G. Hollik (Hamburg) in Zentralblatt MATH 1376.

"The 2009 first edition of The Standard Model and Beyond provided a long-needed and thorough introductory textbook that focused on the advances in phenomenology that led to the highly successful Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physics. Its author, Paul Langacker, is well known not only for his research, but also his communication skills both as a lecturer and writer. However, much has happened over the last seven years, as the Higgs scalar was discovered, thus completing the minimal spectrum of the Standard Model, whilst the field of neutrino physics continued to mature. At the same time, a number of leading speculations regarding 'new physics', beyond the Standard Model, failed to be observed, causing a re-examination of some beliefs. This newly updated second edition explores such constraints on 'new physics' ideas, in addition to exploring recent discoveries and advances in the field. The text remains lucid, thorough, and well-worth having, and so I strongly recommend it as a resource for students and researchers who wish to understand, and help continue, the legacy of scientific exploration and discovery."
-William J. Marciano, Senior Physicist, Physics Depart