Elementary Particles and Their Interactions: Concepts and Phenomena

✍ Scribed by Professor Quang Ho-Kim, Professor Xuan-Yem Pham (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 675
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Elementary Particles and Their Interactions. Concepts and Phenomena presents a well-written and thorough introduction to this field at the advanced undergraduate and graduate level. Students familiar with quantum mechanics, special relativity and classical electrodynamics will find easy access to modern particle physics and a rich source of illustrative examples, figures, tables, and problems with selected solutions. Further references guide the reader through the literature. This text should become a standard reference to particle physics and will be useful to students and lecturers alike.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Particles and Interactions: An Overview....Pages 1-16
Boson Fields....Pages 17-56
Fermion Fields....Pages 57-88
Collisions and Decays....Pages 89-142
Discrete Symmetries....Pages 143-184
Hadrons and Isospin....Pages 185-214
Quarks and SU(3) Symmetry....Pages 215-266
Gauge Field Theories....Pages 267-303
The Standard Model of the Electroweak Interaction....Pages 305-342
Electron-Nucleon Scattering....Pages 343-376
Neutral K Mesons and CP Violation....Pages 377-406
The Neutrinos....Pages 407-446
Muon and Tau Lepton Decays....Pages 447-474
One-Loop QCD Corrections....Pages 475-504
Asymptotic Freedom in QCD....Pages 505-548
Heavy Flavors....Pages 549-599
Status and Perspectives of the Standard Model....Pages 601-614
Back Matter....Pages 615-663

✦ Subjects

Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory