Introduction to elementary particle physics
Title:
Introduction to elementary particle physics
Author:
Bettini, Alessandro, 1939-
ISBN:
9780511649912
9780521880213
9780511400599
9780511402616
9780511809019
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Publication Information:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 431 pages) : illustrations
Contents:
1. Preliminary notions -- 2. Nucleons, leptons and bosons -- 3. Symmetries -- 4. Hadrons -- 5. Quantum electrodynamics -- 6. Chromodynamics -- 7. Weak interactions -- 8. neutral K and B mesons and CP violation -- 9. Standard Model -- 10. Beyond the Standard Model -- App. 1. Greek alphabet -- App. 2. Fundamental constants -- App. 3. Properties of elementary particles -- App. 4. Clebsch-Gordan coefficients -- App. 5. Spherical harmonics and d-functions -- App. 6. Experimental and theoretical discoveries in particle physics.
Abstract:
"The Standard Model is the theory of elementary building blocks of matter and of their forces. It is the most comprehensive physical theory ever developed, and has been experimentally tested with high accuracy." "This textbook conveys the basic elements of the Standard Model using elementary concepts, without theoretical rigour. While most texts on this subject emphasise theoretical aspects, this textbook contains examples of basic experiments, before going into the theory. This allows readers to see how measurements and theory interplay in the development of physics. The author examines leptons, hadrons and quarks, before presenting the dynamics and the surprising properties of the charges of the different forces. The textbook concludes with a brief discussion on the recent discoveries of physics beyond the Standard Model, and its connections with cosmology." "Quantitative examples are given, and the reader is guided through the necessary calculations. Each chapter ends in the exercises, and solutions to some problems are included in the book. Complete solutions are available to instructors at www.cambridge.org/9780521880213. This textbook is suitable for advanced undergraduate students and graduate students."--Jacket.
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