Dynamics of the Standard Model

This 2014 edition, now OA, provides a detailed and practical account of the Standard Model of particle physics.

John F. Donoghue (Author), Eugene Golowich (Author), Barry R. Holstein (Author)

9781009291019, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 February 2023

590 pages
24.3 x 16.9 x 3 cm, 1.02 kg

Describing the fundamental theory of particle physics and its applications, this book provides a detailed account of the Standard Model, focusing on techniques that can produce information about real observed phenomena. It begins with a pedagogic account of the Standard Model, introducing essential techniques such as effective field theory and path integral methods. It then focuses on the use of the Standard Model in the calculation of physical properties of particles. Rigorous methods are emphasized, but other useful models are also described. The second edition has been updated to include theoretical and experimental advances, such as the discovery of the Higgs boson, our understanding of neutrinos, and the major advances in CP violation and electroweak physics. This book is valuable to graduate students and researchers in particle physics, nuclear physics and related fields. This edition, first published in 2014, has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

Preface
1. Inputs to the Standard Model
2. Interactions of the Standard Model
3. Symmetries and anomalies
4. Introduction to effective field theory
5. Charged leptons
6. Neutrinos
7. Effective field theory for low energy QCD
8. Weak interactions of Kaons
9. Mass mixing and CP violation
10. The Nc?1 expansion
11. Phenomenological models
12. Baryon properties
13. Hadron spectroscopy
14. Weak interactions of heavy quarks
15. The Higgs boson
16. The electroweak sector
Appendixes
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Particle & high-energy physics [PHP], Nuclear physics [PHN], Physics [PH], Mathematics & science [P]