Electroweak Theory

• Main Author: Paschos, E.A (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2007
• Subjects: Nuclear physics; electromagnetic current properties; weak currents; quark model; global and local Symmetries; Yang-Mills theories; spontaneous symmetry breaking; Higgs mechanism; Glashow-Salam-Weinberg model; leptons; hadrons; deep inelastic scattering; charged current reactions; neutral currents in semileptonic reactions; neutrinos; heavy quarks; CP violation; K mesons; D mesons; B mesons; Higgs particles; spinors; cross sections and traces; quark bilinear identities
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Summary

The electroweak theory unifies two basic forces of nature: the weak force and electromagnetism. This is a concise introduction to the structure of the electroweak theory and its applications. It describes the structure and properties of field theories with global and local symmetries, leading to the standard model. It describes the particles and processes predicted by the theory, and compares them with experimental results. It also covers neutral currents, the properties of W and Z bosons, the properties of quarks and mesons containing heavy quarks, neutrino oscillations, CP-asymmetries in K, D, and B meson decays, and the search for Higgs particles. Each chapter contains problems to supplement the text, stemming from the author's long teaching experience. This will be of great interest to graduate students and researchers in elementary particle physics.

ISBN

9781009402378

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Open Access