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An introduction to the standard model of particle physics /

New edition introductory graduate textbook on the Standard Model of particle physics.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cottingham, W. N.
Otros Autores: Greenwood, D. A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Edición:2nd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.