Gauge theories of weak interactions / J. C. Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, John C. (John Clayton), 1930-

Series:

Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weak interactions (Nuclear physics).

Gauge fields (Physics).

Physical Description:

xv, 167 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Contents:

1 Introduction

2 Weak interactions and vector mesons

3 Photons

4 The Yang-Mills field

5 Spontaneous breaking of symmetries

6 Spontaneous breaking of local gauge symmetries

7 Topology and symmetry-breaking

8 Theory of leptons

9 A provisional model of hadron weak interactions

10 Feynman's path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics

11 Quantization of gauge fields

12 Ward-Takahashi identities

13 Regularization and anomalies

14 Renormalization of gauge theories

15 Symmetry-breaking and mass-differences

16 Higher-order corrections

17 CP and T violation

18 Gauge theories and strong interactions.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 159-163.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0521208963

OCLC:

1733317