Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics
Published on 8. May 2008
Book
Hardback
442 pages
978-0-521-88021-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Standard Model is the most comprehensive physical theory ever developed. This textbook conveys the basic elements of the Standard Model using elementary concepts, without the theoretical rigor found in most other texts on this subject. It contains examples of basic experiments, allowing 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 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/9781107406094.
Reviews / Votes
Review of the hardback: 'There are many gems within these pages ... The author has managed to bring out the importance of experiment in the field, and to explain both the reasoning and the difficulties behind these experiments, but does not get bogged down in minutiae. We are left with an excellent introduction to the thinking behind modern quantum field theory.' Dr Todd Huffman, University of Oxford Review of the hardback: 'He has a talent to render complicated things as simple and clear as possible. His phrasing is very agreeable and effective. ... Bettini provides the reader with a deep insight of the main steps which have brought to the present formulation of the Standard Model, with its essential ingredients, its limits and open questions. His description is fluent and appealing.' Il Nuovo Saggiatore Review of the hardback: '... provides (postgraduate and advanced undergraduate) students with an admirably clear account of the Standard Model. ... The prose is consistently fluent and interesting, the author's knowledge up-to-date and detailed and the explanations admirably lucid. ... excellent book ...' Contemporary Physics Review of the hardback: 'This book was a welcome sight to many of us 'youngsters' because it contained a wealth of concentrated information so valuable to the budding experimentalist. ... Bettini's expertise shines brightly throughout the text. ... The choice of topics and the level of detail are excellent ... The book is extremely well-written, topically informative and easy to read - but best of all it is full of physics. ... I enjoyed Bettini's book three times - not unlike a fine wine: the first time when admiring its contents; the second when reading it; and a third time when teaching from it. Bravo Sandro!' James W. Rohlf, CERN CourierMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
230 b/w illus. 200 exercises
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 180 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
1030 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-88021-3 (9780521880213)
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Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics
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Alessandro Bettini has been Full Professor of Physics at Padua University since 1981, Vice-President of the OECD Global Science Forum since 1999, and Director of the Canfranc Underground Laboratory, Spain, since 2007. He was also Chairman of the Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics and Gravitation International Committee (PaNAGIC) from 1998 to 2005, Director of the INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) National Gran Sasso Laboratory from 1997 to 2003, and Vice-President of the OECD Mega Science Forum from 1996 to 1998. His previous publications include The Gran Sasso Laborator 1979-1999: A Vision Becomes Reality (1999), Meccanica e termodinamica (1994), Le ode e la luce (1993) and Elettromagnetismo (1991).
Content
Preface; 1. Preliminary notions; 2. Nucleons, leptons and bosons; 3. Symmetries; 4. Hadrons; 5. Quantum electrodynamics; 6. Chromodynamics; 7. Weak interactions; 8. The neutral k and b mesons and cp violation; 9. The standard model; 10. Beyond the standard model; Appendixes; References; Index.