Gauge theory of weak decays : the standard model and the expedition to new physics summits / Andrzej J. Buras.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buras, Andrzej J. (Andrzej Jerzy), 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weak interactions (Nuclear physics).

Gauge fields (Physics).

Standard model (Nuclear physics).

Particles (Nuclear physics)--Flavor.

Particles (Nuclear physics).

Mathematical physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 718 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Fundamentals

The standard model of electroweak and strong interactions

Weak decays at tree level

Technology beyond trees

Short distance structure of weak decays

Effective Hamiltonians for FCNC processes

Non-perturbative methods in weak decays

Particle-antiparticle mixing and CP violation in the standard model

Rare B and K decays in the standard model

[epsilon]'/[epsilon] in the standard model

Charm flavour physics

Status of flavour physics within the standard model

First steps beyond the standard model

Standard model effective theory

Simplest extensions of the SM

Specific models

Beyond quark flavour physics

Grand summary of new physics models

Flavour expedition to the Zeptouniverse

Summary and shopping list.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jun 2020).

ISBN:

1-108-88950-6

1-108-88275-7

1-139-52410-0

OCLC:

1249475775