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Gauge theories in particle physics : a practical introduction /

Este libro tiene como objetivo proporcionar una introducción accesible, práctica y completa a la teoría y la fenomenología de las tres teorías de calibre (QED, teoría electrodébil y cromodinámica cuántica) que juntas constituyen el modelo 'estándar'. Este libro le proporcionará una buena c...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:QC793.3 C3 A3.4 1989
Main Author: Aitchison, Ian Johnston Rhind, 1936- (autor)
Other Authors: Hey, Anthony J. G. (autor)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol, England ; Philadelphia : A. Hilger : Institute of Physics, 1989.
Edition:2a edición
Series:Graduate student series in physics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface. 1. Experimental and theoretical elements: Quarks and leptons, and the forces between them
  • 2. Electromagnetism as a gauge theory.
  • 3. Klein-Gordon and Dirac wave equations, and the interpretation of their negative energy solutions
  • 4. Quantum field theory
  • Best theory we have of quantum electrodynamics: The electromagnetic interactions of spin-0 particles: forces and particle exchange processes.
  • 5. The electromagnetic interactions of spin-1/2 particles
  • 6. Deep inelastic electron-nucleon scattering and the quark parton model.
  • 7. Non-Abelian gauge theory and QCD: Non-Abelian gauge theory
  • 8. An introduction to quantum chromodynamics
  • 9. Not quite a theory - Phenomenology of weak interactions: Introduction to weak interactions
  • 10. Hadronic weak current and neutral currents
  • 11. Difficulties with weak interaction phenomenology
  • 12. Theory of electroweak interactions: Hidden gauge invariance - the U(1) case
  • 13. Glashow-Salam-Weinberg gauge theory of electroweak interactions
  • 14. Four last things
  • Appendices
  • References
  • Index.