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)

9780521499514, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 14 March 1996

464 pages, 210 b/w illus. 10 tables
24.8 x 17.4 x 2.5 cm, 0.816 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.

18. Determination of the Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix
19. Mixing and CP-violation
20. Regularization, renormalization and introduction to the renormalization group
21. Gauge theories, QCD and the renormalization group
22. Applications of the QCD renormalization group
23. The parton model in QCD
24. Large pT phenomena and jets in hadronic interactions
25. Jets and hadrons in e+e- physics
26. Low pT or 'soft' hadronic physics
27. Some non-perturbative aspects of gauge theories
28. Beyond the Standard Model
Appendices
References
Index.

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