Elementary Particles

This is now the third edition of a text that is already well established as one of the standard undergraduate books on the subject of elementary particle physics. Professor Hughes has updated the whole text and has added completely new material.

I. S. Hughes (Author)

9780521407397, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 November 1991

456 pages, 165 b/w illus.
22.8 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.76 kg

This is now the third edition of a text that is already well established as one of the standard undergraduate books on the subject of elementary particle physics. Professor Hughes has updated the whole text in line with current particle nomenclature and has added material to cover important new developments. There is also a completely new major chapter on particle physics and cosmology, an exciting subject which has become an area of increasing importance in recent years. In this field much can be learnt from the way the subject developed, and so, where this helps its understanding, an historical treatment is used. At all stages the theoretical development is closely linked to the relevant experimental measurements, providing a sound foundation to what might otherwise appear as a rather abstract subject. This book will fill the need for an introductory undergraduate textbook aimed at students taking a first course in this fascinating area of modern physics.

Accelerators, beams and detectors
Pions and muons
Conservation laws
Strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions
Strange particles
Spin and parity of the K-mesons and non-conservation of parity in weak interactions
Weak interactions: basic ideas
Invariance under the CP and T operations, properties of Ko-mesons
Strongly-decaying resonances
SU (3) and the quark model: classification and dynamic probes
Weak interactions and weak-electromagnetic unification
New flavours
Quark and gluon interactions
Higher symmetries
Particle physics and cosmology
Appendices
References
Index.

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