An Introduction to Gauge Theories and Modern Particle Physics

by Elliot Leader, Enrico Predazzi

Overview

This book is a comprehensive and unified treatment of modern theoretical and experimental particle physics aimed at beginning graduate students. The emphasis throughout is on presenting underlying physical principles in a simple and intuitive way. In 1983, researchers detected the existence of W and Z bosons and many new results have followed. This is the first graduate-level textbook to deal with the "second generation" of particle physics after 1983. 3pi]Features of this edition include: A detailed discussion of higher order electroweak effects; an expanded discussion of quark mixing; revised sections on charm and beauty and on jet physics; enlarged treatment of deep inelastic lepton-adron scattering; detailed treatment of QCD corrections to the simple parton model; and an introduction to the nonperturbative or confinement region of QCD.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521468404
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/14/1996
Series:	Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology , #3
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x 1.10(d)

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.