An Introduction to Gauge Theories and Modern Particle Physics

A comprehensive treatment of modern theoretical and experimental particle physics, in two volumes.

Elliot Leader (Author), Enrico Predazzi (Author)

9780521468404, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 14 March 1996

544 pages, 236 b/w illus. 30 tables
24.6 x 18.9 x 2.8 cm, 0.96 kg

This 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.

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.

Subject Areas: Particle & high-energy physics [PHP]