Particle Physics
3rd Edition
Published on 24. October 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
460 pages
978-0-470-03294-7 (ISBN)
Description
Particle Physics is the study of the fundamental constituents of matter and the forces between them.
Particle Physics, Third Edition, provides a short introduction to particle physics, which emphasizes the foundations of the standard model in experimental data, rather than its more formal and theoretical aspects. It is intended for undergraduate students who have previously taken introductory courses in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics and special relativity.
The structure of the book is simple. The first three chapters give a brief overview of the subject. They introduce some of the basic ideas that are used extensively throughout the rest of the book and discuss leptons, quarks and hadrons and the interactions between them. The remaining chapters discuss a wide selection of important topics in more detail. These include experimental methods; space-time symmetries; the quark model of hadrons; quantum chromodynamics and jet physics; the weak interaction, including its unification with the electromagnetic interaction, and CP-violation and related symmetries; and a brief account of some of the important open questions 'beyond the standard model' that are currently being investigated in laboratories around the world. Problems to aid student study are given at the end of each chapter, with solutions given in an Appendix.
Particle Physics 3rd Edition features:
* Expanded coverage of neutrino physics, including recent experimental result on neutrino mixing and neutrino masses.
* A revised and updated discussion of modern particle detectors and experiments.
* A fuller treatment of the Higgs mechanism and experimental searches for the Higgs boson.
* A more extensive discussion of CP violation, including new results B decays their implications for the standard model.
* An updated treatment of physics beyond the standard model, including the expanding field of particle astrophysics and cosmology.
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Series
Edition
3. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 24.4 cm
Width: 16.8 cm
Thickness: 2.6 cm
Weight
778 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-03294-7 (9780470032947)
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Content
Suggested Short Course.
Editor's Preface to the Manchester Physics Series.
Author's Preface.
Notes.
1. Some Basic Concepts.
1.1. Introduction.
1.2. Antiparticles.
1.3. Interactions and Feynman Diagrams.
1.4. Particle Exchange.
1.5. Units and Dimensions.
2. Leptons and the Weak Interactions.
2.1. Lepton Multiplets and Lepton Numbers.
2.2. Leptonic Weak Interactions.
2.3. Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing.
3. Quarks and Hadrons.
3.1. Quarks.
3.2. General Properties of Hadrons.
3.3. Pions and Nucleons.
3.4. Strange Particles, Charm and Bottom.
3.5. Short-Live Hadrons.
3.6. Allowed Quantum Numbers and Exotics.
4. Experimental Methods.
4.1. Overview.
4.2. Accelerators and Beams.
4.3. Particle Interactions with Matter.
4.4. Particle Detectors.
4.5. Detector Systems and Experiments.
5. Space-Time Symmetries.
5.1. Translational Invariance.
5.2. Rotational Invariance.
5.3. Parity.
5.4. Charge Conjugation.
5.5. Positronium.
5.6. Time Reversal.
6. The Quark Model.
6.1. Isospin Symmetry.
6.2. The Lightest Hadrons.
6.3. Colour.
6.4. Charmonium and Bottomium
7. QCD, Jets and Gluons.
7.1. Quantum Chromodynamics.
7.2. Electron-Positron Annihilation.
7.3. Elastic Electron Scattering; The Size of the Proton.
7.4. Inelastic Electron and Muon Scattering.
7.5. Inelastic Neutrino Scattering.
8. Weak Interactions: Quarks and Leptons.
8.1. Charged Current Reactions.
8.2. The Third Generation.
9. Weak Interactions: Electroweak Unification.
9.1. Neutral Currents and the Unified Theory.
9.2. Gauge Invariance and the Higgs Boson.
10. Discrete Symmetries: C, P, CP and CPT.
10.1. P Violation, C Violation and CP Conservation.
10.2. CP Violation.
10.3. Flavour Oscillations and the CPT Theorem.
10.4. CP Violation in the Standard Model.
11. Beyond the Standard Model.
11.1. Grand Unification.
11.2. Supersymmetry.
11.3. Strings and Things.
11.4. Particle Cosmology.
11.5. Neutrino Astronomy.
11.6. Dirac or Majorana Neutrinos?
A. Relativistic Kinematics.
B. Amplitudes and Cross-Sections.
C. The Is spin Formalism.
D. Gauge Theories.
E. Tables of Particle Properties.
F. Solutions to Problems.
References.
Index.