Particle Physics: Ideas and Recent Developments

✍ Scribed by E. Fernandez (auth.), J.-J. Aubert, R. Gastmans, J.-M. Gérard (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 517
• Series: NATO Science Series 555
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For more than 25 years the Standard Model of particle physics has withstood the confrontation with experimental results of increasing precision, but this does not imply that the Standard Model can answer all questions about the ultimate constituents of nature. This book presents a critical examination of the latest experimental results and confronts them with the predictions of the Standard Model.
Besides discussions of accelerator results from LEP, HERA and the TEVATRON, attention is paid to the unresolved problems of neutrino oscillations, CP violation, dark matter and cosmology. New theoretical ideas are also analyzed in order to explore possible extensions of the standard model. Realistic plans for future accelerators are presented and their physics potential is discussed, paving the way for the next generation of particle physics experiments.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Results From LEP 200....Pages 1-54
Anomalous Quartic Couplings at LEP2....Pages 55-64
Physics With an e + e - Linear Collider at High Luminosity....Pages 65-93
Point Splitting and U(1) Gauge Invariance....Pages 95-100
Neutrino Oscillations....Pages 101-169
Physics of CP Violation and Rare Decays....Pages 171-202
HERA - Experimental Results....Pages 203-212
Recent Results and Perspectives at CDF and DØ....Pages 213-234
Heavy Gauge Boson Production at Small Transverse Momentum in Hadron-Hadron Collisions....Pages 235-244
Recent Developments in the Theory Of Strong Interactions: Power Corrections and Renormalons....Pages 245-266
Supersymmetric Extensions of the Standard Model....Pages 267-327
Enhanced Global Symmetries and a Strong Electroweak Sector....Pages 329-337
Supersymmetry and Duality in Field Theory and String Theory....Pages 339-395
Baryogenesis....Pages 397-416
Cosmology and Dark Matter....Pages 417-510
Back Matter....Pages 511-514

✦ Subjects

Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons;Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory;Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory