Gauge Theory of Weak Decays: The Standard Model and the Expedition to New Physics Summits (Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics an)
Cambridge University Press, 7/2/2020
EAN 9781107034037, ISBN10: 1107034035
Hardcover, 650 pages, 25.1 x 19.3 x 3.3 cm
Language: English
This is the first advanced, systematic and comprehensive look at weak decays in the framework of gauge theories. Included is a large spectrum of topics, both theoretical and experimental. In addition to explicit advanced calculations of Feynman diagrams and the study of renormalization group strong interaction effects in weak decays, the book is devoted to the Standard Model Effective Theory, dominating present phenomenology in this field, and to new physics models with the goal of searching for new particles and interactions through quantum fluctuations. This book will benefit theorists, experimental researchers, and Ph.D. students working on flavour physics and weak decays as well as physicists interested in physics beyond the Standard Model. In its concern for the search for new phenomena at short distance scales through the interplay between theory and experiment, this book constitutes a travel guide to physics far beyond the scales explored by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Basics of Gauge Theories
1. Fundamentals
Part II. The Standard Model
2. The Standard Model of electroweak and strong interactions
Part III. Weak Decays in the Standard Model
3. Weak decays at tree level
4. Technology beyond trees
5. Short distance structure of weak decays
6. Effective Hamiltonians for FCNC processes
7. Non-perturbative methods in weak decays
8. Particle-antiparticle mixing and CP violation in the Standard Model
9. Rare B and K decays in the Standard Model
10. ε′/ε in the Standard Model
11. Charm flavour physics
12. Status of flavour physics within the Standard Model
Part IV. Weak Decays beyond the Standard Model
13. First steps beyond the Standard Model
14. Standard Model Effective Theory
15. Simplest extensions of the SM
16. Specific models
17. Beyond quark flavour physics
18. Grand summary of new physics models
19. Flavour expedition to the Zeptouniverse
20. Summary and shopping list
Appendix A. Dirac algebra, spinors, Pauli and Gell-Mann matrices
Appendix B. Feynman rules of the Standard Model
Appendix C. Massive loop integrals
Appendix D. Numerical input
Appendix E. Analytic solutions to SMEFT RG equations
References
Index.