Particle Physics: Ideas and Recent Developments / Edition 1

by Jean-Jacques Aubert, Raymond Gastmans, Jean-Marc Gïrard

Overview

For more than 25 years the Standard Model of particle physics has withstood the confrontation with experimental results of increasing precision, but this does not imply that the Standard Model can answer all questions about the ultimate constituents of nature. This book presents a critical examination of the latest experimental results and confronts them with the predictions of the Standard Model.
Besides discussions of accelerator results from LEP, HERA and the TEVATRON, attention is paid to the unresolved problems of neutrino oscillations, CP violation, dark matter and cosmology. New theoretical ideas are also analyzed in order to explore possible extensions of the standard model. Realistic plans for future accelerators are presented and their physics potential is discussed, paving the way for the next generation of particle physics experiments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792364368
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	06/30/2000
Series:	Nato Science Series C: , #555
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
Pages:	514
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Results from LEP 200.- Anomalous Quartic Couplings at LEP2.- Physics with an e+ e- Linear Collider at High Luminosity.- Point Splitting and U(1) Gauge Invariance.- Neutrino Oscillations.- Physics of CP Violation and Rare Decays.- HERA - Experimental Results.- Recent Results and Perspectives at CDF and DO.- Heavy Gauge Boson Production at Small Transverse Momentum in Hadron-Hadron Collisions.- Recent Developments in the Theory of Strong Interactions: Power Corrections and Renormalons 245.- Supersymmetric Extensions of the Standard Model.- Enhanced Global Symmetries and a Strong Electroweak Sector:Chiral/Conformal Phase Transition.- Supersymmetry and Duality in Field Theory and String Theory.- Baryogenesis.- Cosmology and Dark Matter.

Editorial Reviews

The 15 presentations consider recent issues around the Standard Model for particle physics. Their topics include results from LEP 200, post splitting and U(1) gauge invariance, the physics of CP violation and rare decays, heavy gauge boson production at small transverse momentum in collisions between hadrons, recent power corrections and renormalons in the theory of strong interactions, supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model, supersymmetry and duality in field theory and string theory, baryogenesis, and cosmology and dark matter. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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