Introduction to elementary particle physics / Alessandro Bettini, University of Padua, Italy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bettini, Alessandro, 1939- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Standard model (Nuclear physics).

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

Genre:

Problems and exercises.

Physical Description:

xvii, 474 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, [2014]

Contents:

1.1. Mass, energy, linear momentum

1.2. The law of motion of a particle

1.3. The mass of a system of particles, kinematic invariants

1.4. Systems of interacting particles

1.5. Natural units

1.6. Collisions and decays

1.7. Scattering experiments

1.8. Hadrons, leptons and quarks

1.9. The fundamental interactions

1.10. The passage of radiation through matter

1.11. The sources of high-energy particles

1.12. Particle detectors

Problems

Summary

Further reading

2.1. The muon and the pion

2.2. Strange mesons and hyperons

2.3. The quantum numbers of the charged pion

2.4. Charged leptons and neutrinos

2.5. The Dirac equation

2.6. The positron

2.7. The antiproton

3.1. Symmetries

3.2. Parity

3.3. Particle-antiparticle conjugation

3.4. Time reversal and CPT

3.5. The parity of the pions

3.6. Charged pion decay

3.7. Quark flavours and baryonic number

3.8. Leptonic flavours and lepton number

3.9. Isospin

3.10. The sum of two isospins; the product of two representations

3.11. G-parity

4.1. Resonances

4.2. The 3/2+ baryons

4.3. The Dalitz plot

4.4. Spin, parity, isospin analysis of three-pion systems

4.5. Pseudoscalar and vector mesons

4.6. The quark model

4.7. Mesons

4.8. Baryons

4.9. Charm

4.10. The third family

4.11. The elements of the Standard Model

5.1. Charge conservation and gauge symmetry

5.2. The Lamb and Retherford experiment

5.3. Quantum field theory

5.4. The interaction as an exchange of quanta

5.5. The Feynman diagrams. QED

5.6. Analyticity and the need for antiparticles

5.7. Electron-positron annihilation into a muon pair

5.8. The evolution of [alpha]

6.1. Hadron production at electron-positron colliders

6.2. Nucleon structure

6.3. The colour charges

6.4. Colour bound states

6.5. The evolution of [alpha]s

6.6. The quark masses

6.7. The origin of the hadron mass

6.8. The quantum vacuum

7.1. Classification of weak interactions

7.2. Low-energy lepton processes and the Fermi constant

7.3. Parity violation

7.4. Helicity and chirality

7.5. Measurement of the helicity of leptons

7.6. Violation of the particle-antiparticle conjugation

7.7. Cabibbo mixing

7.8. The Glashow, Iliopoulos and Maiani mechanism

7.9. The quark mixing matrix

7.10. Weak neutral currents

7.11. The chiral symmetry of QCD and the mass of the pion

8.1. Flavour oscillations, mixing and CP violation

8.2. The states of the neutral K system

8.3. Strangeness oscillations

8.4. Regeneration

8.5. CP violation

8.6. Oscillation and CP violation in its interference with mixing in the neutral B system

8.7. CP violation in meson decays

9.1. The electro-weak interaction

9.2. Structure of the weak neutral currents

9.3. Electro-weak unification

9.4. Determination of the electro-weak angle

9.5. The intermediate vector bosons

9.6. The UA1 experiment

9.7. The discovery of Wand Z

9.8. The evolution of sin 20w

9.9. Precision tests at LEP

9.10. The interaction between intermediate bosons

9.11. Precision measurements of the Wand top masses at the Tevatron

9.12. The spontaneous breaking of the local gauge symmetry

9.13. The search for the Higgs at LEP and at the Tevatron

9.14. LHC, ATLAS and CMS

9.15. Discovery of the H boson

10.1. Neutrino mixing

10.2. Neutrino oscillation

10.3. Flavour transition in matter

10.4. The experiments

10.5. Limits on neutrino mass

10.6. Majorana neutrinos

Further reading.

Preliminary notions

Nucleons, leptons and mesons

Symmetries

Hadrons

Quantum electrodynamics

Chromodynamics

Weak interactions

The neutral mesons oscillations and CP violation

The standard model

Neutrinos

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 458-465) and index.

ISBN:

9781107050402

1107050405

OCLC:

865179942