Electroweak and Strong Interactions: Phenomenology, Concepts, Models

✍ Scribed by Florian Scheck (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 442
• Series: Graduate Texts in Physics
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Electroweak and Strong Interaction: Phenomenology, Concepts, Models, begins with relativistic quantum mechanics and some quantum field theory which lay the foundation for the rest of the text. The phenomenology and the physics of the fundamental interactions are emphasized through a detailed discussion of the empirical fundamentals of unified theories of strong, electromagnetic, and weak interactions. The principles of local gauge theories are described both in a heuristic and a geometric framework. The minimal standard model of the fundamental interactions is developed in detail and characteristic applications are worked out. Possible signals of physics beyond that model, notably in the physics of neutrinos are also discussed. Among the applications scattering on nucleons and on nuclei provide salient examples. Numerous exercises with solutions make the text suitable for advanced courses or individual study. This completely updated revised new edition contains an enlarged chapter on quantum chromodynamics and a widely updated chapter on neutrino physics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Fermion Fields and Their Properties....Pages 1-77
Electromagnetic Processes and Interactions....Pages 79-181
Weak Interactions and the Standard Model of Strong and Electroweak Interactions....Pages 183-292
Beyond the Minimal Standard Model....Pages 293-376
Back Matter....Pages 377-421

✦ Subjects

Particle and Nuclear Physics;Quantum Physics;Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory