Modern Elementary Particle Physics
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Modern Elementary Particle Physics

Explaining and Extending the Standard Model

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eBook - PDF

Modern Elementary Particle Physics

Explaining and Extending the Standard Model

About this book

This book is written for students and scientists wanting to learn about the Standard Model of particle physics. Only an introductory course knowledge about quantum theory is needed. The text provides a pedagogical description of the theory, and incorporates the recent Higgs boson and top quark discoveries. With its clear and engaging style, this new edition retains its essential simplicity. Long and detailed calculations are replaced by simple approximate ones. It includes introductions to accelerators, colliders, and detectors, and several main experimental tests of the Standard Model are explained. Descriptions of some well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model prepare the reader for new developments. It emphasizes the concepts of gauge theories and Higgs physics, electroweak unification and symmetry breaking, and how force strengths vary with energy, providing a solid foundation for those working in the field, and for those who simply want to learn about the Standard Model.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781107165083
eBook ISBN
9781316730805
Edition
2
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Nuclear Physics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. 1 Introduction
  8. 2 Relativistic Notation, Lagrangians, and Interactions
  9. 3 Gauge Invariance
  10. 4 Non-Abelian Gauge Theories
  11. 5 Dirac Notation for Spin
  12. 6 The Standard Model Lagrangian
  13. 7 The Electroweak Theory and Quantum Chromodynamics
  14. 8 Masses and the Higgs Mechanism
  15. 9 Cross Sections, Decay Widths, and Lifetimes; W and Z Decays
  16. 10 Production and Properties of W[sup(pm)] and Z[sup(0)]
  17. 11 Measurement of Electroweak and QCD Parameters; the Muon Lifetime
  18. 12 Accelerators – Present and Future
  19. 13 Experiments and Detectors
  20. 14 Low Energy and Non-Accelerator Experiments
  21. 15 Observation of the Higgs Boson at the CERN LHC; is it the Higgs Boson?
  22. 16 Colliders and Tests of the Standard Model; Particles are Point-Like
  23. 17 Quarks and Gluons, Confinement and Jets
  24. 18 Hadrons, Heavy Quarks, and Strong Isospin Invariance
  25. 19 Coupling Strengths Depend on Momentum Transfer and on Virtual Particles
  26. 20 Quark (and Lepton) Mixing Angles
  27. 21 CP Violation
  28. 22 Overview of Physics Beyond the Standard Model
  29. 23 Grand Unification
  30. 24 Neutrino Masses
  31. 25 Dark Matter
  32. 26 Supersymmetry
  33. Appendix A Angular Momentum and Spin and SU(2)
  34. Appendix B Some Group Theory
  35. Appendix C Some Relativistic Kinematics
  36. Appendix D The Point-Like Cross Section
  37. Appendix E When Are Our Approximations Not Valid?
  38. Appendix F Lagrangians and Symmetries; the Euler–Lagrange Equations and Maxwell's Equations
  39. Index