An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics

• Main Author: Cottingham, W.N (auth)
• Other Authors: Greenwood, D.A (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2007
• Subjects: Nuclear physics; Lorentz transformations; Lagrangian mechanics; classical electromagnetism; Dirac equation; Dirac field; Free space solutions; electrodynamics; quantising fields; QED; weak interaction; low energy phenomenology; symmetry breaking; massive gauge fields; Weinberg-Salam electroweak theory; leptons; weak interactions of quarks; hadronic decays of Z and W bosons; strong interactions; quantum chromodynamics; Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix; neutrino masses and mixing; Majorana neutrinos; Standard Model; annihilation and creation operators; parton model; mass matrices and mixing
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Summary

The second edition of this introductory graduate textbook provides a concise yet accessible introduction to the Standard Model. It has been updated to account for the successes of the theory of strong interactions and the observations on matter-antimatter asymmetry. It gives a coherent presentation of the phenomena and theory that describe neutrino mass as well as an account of progress in the theory of strong interactions. The book develops clearly the theoretical concepts from the electromagnetic and weak interactions of leptons and quarks to the strong interactions of quarks. Each chapter ends with problems, with hints to selected problems provided at the end of the book. The mathematical treatments are suitable for graduates in physics, while more sophisticated mathematical ideas are developed in the text and appendices.

ISBN

9781009401685

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Open Access