An introduction to the standard model of particle physics / W.N. Cottingham, D.A. Greenwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cottingham, W. N., author.

Greenwood, D. A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Standard model (Nuclear physics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The particle physicist's view of nature

Lorentz transformations

The Lagrangian formulation of mechanics

Classical electromagnetism

The Dirac equation and the Dirac field

Free space solutions of the Dirac equation

Electrodynamics

Quantising fields : QED

The weak interaction : low energy phenomenology

Symmetry breaking in model theories

Massive gauge fields

The Weinberg-Salam electroweak theory for leptons

Experimental tests of the Weinberg-Salam theory

The electromagnetic and weak interactions of quarks

The hadronic decays of the Z and W bosons

The theory of strong interactions : quantum chromodynamics

Quantum chromodynamics : calculations

The Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix

Neutrino masses and mixing

Neutrino masses and mixing : experimental results

Majorana neutrinos

Anomalies

Appendix A : an aide-mémoire 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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-16541-5

9786611836399

1-281-83639-7

0-511-43886-9

1-139-81411-7

0-511-79140-2

0-511-27298-7

0-511-64906-1

0-511-56824-X

0-511-27377-0

OCLC:

1024269632