An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2nd edition, 2/22/2007
EAN 9780521852494, ISBN10: 0521852498
Hardcover, 292 pages, 25 x 17.8 x 2 cm
Language: English
The second edition of this introductory graduate textbook provides a concise but accessible introduction to the Standard Model. It has been updated to account for the successes of the theory of strong interactions, and the observations on matter-antimatter asymmetry. It has become clear that neutrinos are not mass-less, and this book gives a coherent presentation of the phenomena and the theory that describes them. It includes an account of progress in the theory of strong interactions and of advances in neutrino physics. The book clearly develops the theoretical concepts from the electromagnetic and weak interactions of leptons and quarks to the strong interactions of quarks. Each chapter ends with problems, and hints to selected problems are provided at the end of the book. The mathematical treatments are suitable for graduates in physics, and more sophisticated mathematical ideas are developed in the text and appendices.
Preface
Notation
1. The particle physicist's view of nature
2. Lorentz transformations
3. The Lagrangian formulation of mechanics
4. Classical electromagnetism
5. The Dirac equation and the Dirac field
6. Free space solutions of the Dirac equation
7. Electrodynamics
8. Quantising fields
QED
9. The weak interaction
low energy phenomenology
10. Symmetry breaking in model theories
11. Massive gauge fields
12. The Weinberg-Salam electroweak theory for leptons
13. Experimental tests of the Weinberg-Salam theory
14. The electromagnetic and weak interactions of quarks
15. The hadronic decays of the Z and W bosons
16. The theory of strong interactions
quantum chromodynamics
17. Quantum chromodynamics
calculations
18. The Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix
19. Neutrino masses and mixing
20. Neutrino masses and mixing
experimental results
21. Majorana neutrinos
22. Anomalies
Epilogue
Appendix A. An aide-memoire on matrices
Appendix B. The groups of the Standard Model
Appendix C. Annihilation and creation operators
Appendix D. The parton model
Appendix E. Mass matrices and mixing
References
Hints to selected problems
Index.
Review from the first edition 'I am very impressed with this book. It is a beautifully clear and concise introductory text … for a first course in the basic physics of the standard model this book would be an excellent choice. Both experimental and theoretical students would benefit from it.' Neil Turok, The Observatory
'It is fun to read this book!' Evelyn Weimar-Woods, Zentralblatt für Mathematik
'… a very clearly written and recommendable introduction to the Standard Model of particle physics.' The Observatory