This modern introduction to particle physics equips students with the skills needed to develop a deep and intuitive understanding of the physical theory underpinning contemporary experimental results. The fundamental tools of particle physics are introduced and accompanied by historical profiles cha
Elementary Particle Physics: An Intuitive Introduction β Solution Manual
β Scribed by Andrew J. Larkoski
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 159
- Edition
- 1
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β¦ Table of Contents
Introduction
Energy of a Mosquito
Yukawa's Theory
Mass of the Photon
Planck Units
Expansion of the Universe
Decay Width of the Z boson
Decay of Strange Hadrons
PDG Review
InSpire and arXiv
Special Relativity
Properties of Lorentz Transformations
Rapidity
Lorentz-Invariant Measure
Properties of Klein-Gordon Equation
Maxwell's Equations
Properties of the Clifford Algebra
Relativity of Spin-1/2
Dark Matter Searches
Top Quark Decay
A Little Group Theory
Representations of the Symmetric Group
Lorentz Group
Hermitian Matrices
Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff Formula
Casimir Operator
Helicity
Symplectic Group
-p Scattering
Fermi's Golden Rule & Feynman Diagrams
Galactic Collisions
Integrating -functions
Three-Body Phase Space
e+e-e+e- Scattering
Non-Relativistic Limit of Feynman Diagrams
Proton-Proton Total Cross Section
Proton Collision Beam at ATLAS
Upper Limits on LUX Bounds
Particle Collider Experiment
Synchrotron Losses
Limits of the Tracking System
Reconstructing Muons
Data Quantity from the LHC
Properties of Poisson Statistics
Look-Elsewhere Effect
Discovery of the Top Quark
Missing Energy and Neutrinos
Event Displays
Quantum Electrodynamics in e+e- Collisions
Lorentz Transformation of Spinors
Helicity Spinors
Spin Analysis of e+e-+-
Spin-0 Photon
e+e- scalars
Decays of the Z boson
Inclusive vs. Exclusive Cross Sections
Finite Decay Width Effects
Quarks & Gluons
Plus-Function Expansion
Breit Frame
Form Factor Evolution Equation
Infrared and Collinear Safety
Properties of Helicity Spinors
More Helicity Spinors
The Drell-Yan Process
Thrust in Data
Quantum Chromodynamics
Masslessness of the Gluon
Bianchi Identity
Instantons
Wilson Lines
su(2) Lie Algebra
Casimir Invariant
Adjoint Representation of SU(3)
Running Couplings of QED and QCD
Parton Evolution and Jets
Dilation Operator
Expansion of Differential Cross Section for Thrust
Jet Multiplicity
Properties of the DGLAP Equation
Resummation of Q2 with DGLAP
Jet Mass at the LHC
Underlying Event at Hadron Colliders
Jet Event Display
Parity Violation
Time Reversal of Spinors
Charge Conjugation of Spinors
CPT on Spinors
C, P, T in Electromagnetism
Electron Spin in Muon Decay
Endpoint of Electron Energy in Muon Decays
Kinematics of the IceCube Experiment
High-Energy Neutrino Cross Sections
The Mass Scales of the Weak Force
Maxwell with a Massive Photon
Scalar Higgs
Charge 0 Higgs
Forms of SU(2) Matrices
Unification of Couplings
When V-A and When Electroweak?
Charged Current DIS
Left-Handed Coupling of the W Boson?
Consequences of the Weak Interactions
Mass and Flavor Basis Commutator
Unitarity of the CKM Matrix
Jarlskog Invariant
Extra Quark Generations
Measuring the Cabibbo Angle
Non-Relativistic Limit of Neutrino Oscillations
Neutrinos for Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Neutrinos from SN 1987a
Solar Neutrino Problem
The Higgs Boson
W Boson Decays
ppW+W- Backgrounds
Searching for HW+W-
H Rate
Higgs Production Rate
Landau-Yang Theorem
Combining Uncorrelated Measurements
Testing the Spin-2 Higgs Boson Hypothesis
Particle Physics at the Frontier
Neutrinoless Double- Decay at EXO
Double-Higgs Production
Borel Summation of a Convergent Series
The International Linear Collider
The Largest Possible Collider
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