An Introduction to Gauge Theories and Modern Particle Physics

Elliot Leader; Enrico Predazzi

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511622595

This work presents, in two volumes, a comprehensive and unified treatment of modern theoretical and experimental particle physics at a level accessible to beginning research students. The emphasis throughout is on presenting underlying physical principles in a simple and intuitive way, and the more sophisticated methods demanded by present day research interests are introduced in a very gradual and gentle fashion. Volume 1 covers electroweak interactions, the discovery and properties of the 'new' particles, the discovery of partons and the construction and predictions of the simple parton model. Volume 2 deals at some length with CP-violation, but is mainly devoted to QCD and its application to 'hard' processes. A brief coverage of 'soft' hadronic physics is included. This work will provide a comprehensive reference and textbook for all graduate students and researchers interested in modern particle physics.

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgements
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Notational conventions
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Note added in proof: the discovery of the top quark (?)
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Note added in proof: the demise of the SSC
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1 - Field theory and pre-gauge theory of weak interactions
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2 - The need for a gauge theory
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3 - Spontaneous symmetry breaking: the Goldstone theorem and the Higgs phenomenon
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4 - Construction of the standard model
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5 - Lowest order tests of the SM in the leptonic sector
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6 - The Higgs boson
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7 - The standard model beyond lowest order
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8 - e+e− physics and the standard model
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9 - Extension to the hadrons; quark–lepton universality
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10 - Phenomenology of semi-leptonic reactions
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11 - The discovery of the narrow vector resonances
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12 - Hidden flavour bound states
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13 - Open heavy flavours
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14 - The heavy lepton τ
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15 - Towards the parton model—deep inelastic scattering
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16 - The quark–parton model
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17 - Experimental tests of the quark-parton model
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Appendix 1 - Elements of field theory
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Appendix 2 - Feynman rules for QED, QCD and the SM
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Appendix 3 - Conserved vector currents and their charges
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References
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Analytic subject index for vols. 1 and 2
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