An Introduction to Gauge Theories and Modern Particle Physics
An Introduction to Gauge Theories and Modern Particle Physics
Enrico Predazzi, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
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exc GSTThis work presents, in two volumes, a comprehensive and unified treatment of modern theoretical and experimental particle physics at a level accessible to beginning research students. The emphasis throughout is on presenting underlying physical principles in a simple and intuitive way, and the more sophisticated methods demanded by present day research interests are introduced in a very gradual and gentle fashion. Volume 1 covers electroweak interactions, the discovery and properties of the 'new' particles, the discovery of partons and the construction and predictions of the simple parton model. Volume 2 deals at some length with CP-violation, but is mainly devoted to QCD and its application to 'hard' processes. A brief coverage of 'soft' hadronic physics is included. This work will provide a comprehensive reference and textbook for all graduate students and researchers interested in modern particle physics.
- Comprehensive overview of modern particle physics
- Suitable for graduate students and researchers
- Internationally recognised authors
Product details
May 1996Paperback
9780521468404
544 pages
246 × 189 × 28 mm
0.96kg
236 b/w illus. 30 tables
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Field theory and pre-gauge theory weak interactions
- 2. The need for a gauge theory
- 3. Spontaneous symmetry breaking: the Goldstone theorem and the Higgs phenomenon
- 4. Construction of the Standard Model
- 5. Lowest order tests of the Standard Model in the leptonic sector
- 6. The Higgs boson
- 7. The Standard Model beyond lowest order
- 8. e+e- physics and the Standard Model
- 9. Extension to the hadrons
- 10. Phenomenology of semi-leptonic reactions
- 11. The discovery of the narrow vector resonances
- 12. Hidden flavour bound states
- 13. Open heavy flavours
- 14. The heavy lepton tau
- 15. Toward the parton model – deep inelastic scattering
- 16. The quark-parton model
- 17. Experimental tests of the quark-parton model
- Appendices
- References
- Index.
