Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics

This Open Access third edition reflects the progress of field as a first course in particle physics for undergraduate students.

Alessandro Bettini (Author)

9781009440738, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 June 2024

562 pages
26.3 x 18.8 x 3.9 cm, 1.232 kg

'The topics range well on the subject; the contents are exhaustive on most of the topics covered; the references are adequate and well chosen; the layout is comfortable to read.' Giacomo Margagliotti, Universita Degli Studi Trieste

The third edition of this successful textbook has been redesigned to reflect the progress of the field in the last decade, including the latest studies of the Higgs boson, quark–gluon plasma, progress in flavour and neutrino physics and the discovery of gravitational waves. It provides undergraduate students with complete coverage of the basic elements of the Standard Model of particle physics, assuming only introductory courses in nuclear physics, special relativity and quantum mechanics. Examples of fundamental experiments are highlighted before discussions of the theory, giving students an appreciation of how experiment and theory interplay in the development of physics. The author examines leptons, hadrons and quarks, before presenting the dynamics and the surprising properties of the charges of the different forces, concluding with a discussion on neutrino properties beyond the Standard Model. This title is also available as open access on Higher Education from Cambridge University Press.

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Preliminary notions
2. Nucleons, leptons and mesons
3. Symmetries
4. Hadrons
5. Quantum electrodynamics
6. Chromodynamics
7. Weak interactions
8. Oscillations and CP violation in quarks
9. The Standard Model
10. Neutrinos
11. Gravitational waves
Epilogue
Appendices
Solutions
References
Index.

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