Theoretical Physics Text and Exercise Books
Volume 5: Gauge Theory of Weak Interactions
Published on 3. December 1993
Book
Hardback
XIV, 308 pages
978-3-540-56176-7 (ISBN)
Description
More than a generation of Gennan-speaking students around the world have worked their way to an understanding and appreciation of the power and beauty of modern theoretical physics - with mathematics, the most fundamental of sciences - using Walter Greiner's textbooks as their guide. The idea of developing a coherent, complete presentation of an entire field of science in a series of closely related textbooks is not a new one. Many older physicists remember with real pleasure their sense of adventure and discovery as they worked their ways through the classic series by Sommerfeld, by Planck and by Landau and Lifshitz. From the students' viewpoint, there are a great many obvious advantages to be gained through use of consistent notation, logical ordering of topics and coherence of presentation; beyond this, the complete coverage of the science provides a unique opportunity for the author to convey his personal enthusiasm and love for his subject. The present five volume set, Theoretical Physics, is in fact only that part of the complete set of textbooks developed by Greiner and his students that presents the quantum theory. I have long urged him to make the remaining volumes on classical mechanics and dynamics, on electromagnetism, on nuclear and particle physics, and on special topics available to an English-speaking audience as well, and we can hope for these companion volumes covering all of theoretical physics some time in the future.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
4 s/w Abbildungen
80 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
890 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-56176-7 (9783540561767)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-77915-2
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Theoretical Physics Text and Exercise Books
Volume 5: Gauge Theory of Weak Interactions
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12/1993
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Content
1. The Discovery of the Weak Interaction.- 1.1 The Universal Fermi Interaction.- 1.2 The Non-Conservation of Parity.- 2. Leptonic Interactions.- 2.1 The Current-Current Interaction (Charged Currents).- 2.2 The Decay of the Muon.- 2.3 The Lifetime of the Muon.- 2.4 Parity Violation in the Muon Decay.- 2.5 The Michel Parameters.- 2.6 The Tau Lepton.- 3. Limitations of Fermi Theory.- 3.1 Neutral Currents.- 3.2 Scattering of a Muon Neutrino by an Electron.- 3.3 ??? - e- Scattering.- 3.4 High-Energy Behaviour of Neutrino-Electron Scattering.- 3.5 Supplement: Scattering Formalism for Spin-½ Particles.- 3.6 Divergences in Higher-Order Processes.- 4. The Salam-Weinberg Theory.- 4.1 The Higgs Mechanism.- 4.2 The Yang-Mills Field.- 4.3 The Feynman Rules of Yang-Mills Theory.- 4.4 The Glashow-Salam-Weinberg Model of Leptons.- 4.5 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: The Higgs Sector.- 4.6 Hidden SU(2) × U(1) Gauge Invariance.- 5. Some Properties of the Salam-Weinberg Theory of Leptons.- 5.1 Decay of the Charged Vector Boson W-.- 5.2 The Process e+e- ? Z0 ? ?+?-.- 5.3 High-Energy Behaviour of the GSW Theory.- 6. Semi-Leptonic Interactions of Hadrons.- 6.1 The World of Hadrons.- 6.2 Phenomenology of Decays of Hadrons.- 6.3 Weak Interactions of Quarks.- 6.4 Cabibbo's Theory of Flavour Mixing.- 7. Nuclear Beta Decay.- 7.1 The MIT Bag Model.- 7.2 Beta Decay of the Neutron.- 7.3 Nuclear Beta Decay.- 7.4 Properties of Allowed Beta Decays.- 8. The Neutral Kaon System.- 8.1 The Particles KS and KL.- 8.2 CP Violation.- 9. Unified Gauge Theories.- 9.1 Introduction: The Symmetry Group SU(5).- 9.2 Embedding SU(3)C×SU(2)L×U(1) into SU(5).- 9.3 The SU(5) Gauge Theory.- 9.4 Spontaneous Breaking of the SU(5) Symmetry.- 9.5 Determination of the Scale of SU(5) Symmetry Breaking.- 9.6 Proton Decay.- 9.7 Outlook: Extensions of the Standard Model.- A. Conventions and "Natural" Units.- B. The Dirac Equation.- C. Feynman Rules.- D. Symmetry Transformations.