An Introduction to Gauge Theories and Modern Particle Physics

by Elliot Leader, Enrico Predazzi

Overview

Volume 2 deals at some length with CP-violation, but is mainly devoted to QCD and its application to "hard" processes. The authors briefly cover "soft" hadronic physics, also. This work will provide a comprehensive reference and textbook for all postgraduate students and researchers interested in modern particle physics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521499514
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/14/1996
Series:	Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology , #4
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	6.85(w) x 9.76(h) x 0.98(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.