Modern Elementary Particle Physics: Explaining and Extending the Standard Model
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 2/9/2017
EAN 9781107165083, ISBN10: 1107165083
Hardcover, 240 pages, 25.2 x 19.3 x 1.4 cm
Language: English
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.
1. Introduction
2. Relativistic notation, Lagrangians, and interactions
3. Gauge invariance
4. Non-abelian gauge theories
5. Dirac notation for spin
6. The Standard Model Lagrangian
7. The electroweak theory and quantum chromodynamics
8. Masses and the Higgs mechanism
9. Cross sections, decay widths, and lifetimes
W and Z decays
10. Production and properties of W± and Zᴼ
11. Measurement of electroweak and QCD parameters
the muon lifetime
12. Accelerators - present and future
13. Experiments and detectors
14. Low energy and non-accelerator experiments
15. Observation of the Higgs boson at the CERN LHC
is it the Higgs boson?
16. Colliders and tests of the Standard Model
particles are pointlike
17. Quarks and gluons, confinement and jets
18. Hadrons, heavy quarks, and strong isospin invariance
19. Coupling strengths depend on momentum transfer and on virtual particles
20. Quark (and lepton) mixing angles
21. CP violation
22. Overview of physics beyond the Standard Model
23. Grand unification
24. Neutrino masses
25. Dark matter
26. Supersymmetry.