Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics
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Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics

About this book

The second edition of this successful textbook is fully updated to include the discovery of the Higgs boson and other recent developments, providing undergraduate students with complete coverage of the basic elements of the standard model of particle physics for the first time. Physics is emphasised over mathematical rigour, making the material accessible to students with no previous knowledge of elementary particles. Important experiments and the theory linked to them are highlighted, helping students appreciate how key ideas were developed. The chapter on neutrino physics has been completely revised, and the final chapter summarises the limits of the standard model and introduces students to what lies beyond. Over 250 problems, including sixty that are new to this edition, encourage students to apply the theory themselves. Partial solutions to selected problems appear in the book, with full solutions and slides of all figures available at www.cambridge.org/9781107050402.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface to the second edition
  7. Preface to the first edition
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Preliminary notions
  10. 2 Nucleons, leptons and mesons
  11. 3 Symmetries
  12. 4 Hadrons
  13. 5 Quantum electrodynamics
  14. 6 Chromodynamics
  15. 7 Weak interactions
  16. 8 The neutral mesons' oscillations and CP violation
  17. 9 The Standard Model
  18. 10 Neutrinos
  19. 11 Epilogue
  20. Appendix 1 Greek alphabet
  21. Appendix 2 Fundamental constants
  22. Appendix 3 Properties of elementary particles
  23. Appendix 4 Clebsch-Gordan coefficients
  24. Appendix 5 Spherical harmonics and d-functions
  25. Appendix 6 Experimental and theoretical discoveries in particle physics
  26. Solutions
  27. References
  28. Index