Introduction to elementary particle physics / by Alessandro Bettini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bettini, Alessandro, 1939-

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Standard model (Nuclear physics).

Standard model (Nuclear physics)--Problems, exercises, etc.

Genre:

Problems and exercises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 431 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Elementary particle physics

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Standard Model is the theory of elementary building blocks of matter and of their forces. It is the most comprehensive physical theory ever developed, and has been experimentally tested with high accuracy.

This textbook conveys the basic elements of the Standard Model using elementary concepts, without theoretical rigour. While most texts on this subject emphasise theoretical aspects, this textbook contains examples of basic experiments, before going into the theory. This allows readers to see how measurements and theory interplay in the development of physics. The author examines leptons, hadrons and quarks, before presenting the dynamics and surprising properties of the charges of the different forces. The textbook concludes with a brief discussion on the recent discoveries in physics beyond the Standard Model, and its connections with cosmology.

Quantitative examples are given throughout the book, and the reader is guided through the necessary calculations. Each chapter ends in exercises so readers can test their understanding of the material. Solutions to some problems are included in the book, and complete solutions are available to instructors at www.cambridge.org/9780521880213. This textbook is suitable for advanced undergraduate students and graduate students.

Contents:

1. Preliminary notions

2. Nucleons, leptons and bosons

3. Symmetries

4. Hadrons

5. Quantum electrodynamics

6. Chromodynamics

7. Weak interactions

8. neutral K and B mesons and CP violation

9. Standard Model

10. Beyond the Standard Model

App. 1. Greek alphabet

App. 2. Fundamental constants

App. 3. Properties of elementary particles

App. 4. Clebsch-Gordan coefficients

App. 5. Spherical harmonics and d-functions

App. 6. Experimental and theoretical discoveries in particle physics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780511809019

0511809018

Publisher Number:

99989245416

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.