Fundamentals of Particle Physics

ISBN-13: 9781009171588 / Twarda / 2023 / 550 str.

Paris) Paganini Pascal (Ecole Polytechnique

Opis

This modern text bridges between basic descriptive and purely theoretical books, making the subject accessible to graduate students.

Spis treści

Preface; Notation and Constants; 1. Particle physics landscape; 2. Preliminary concepts: special relativity and quantum mechanics; 3. Collisions and decays; 4. Conservation rules and symmetries; 5. From wave functions to quantum fields; 6. A brief overview of quantum electrodynamics; 7. From hadrons to partons; 8. Quantum Chromodynamics; 9. Weak interaction; 10. Electroweak interaction; 11. Electroweak symmetry breaking; 12. The Standard Model and beyond; Appendix A. Elements of group theory for particle physics; Appendix B. Special Unitary group SU(2); Appendix C. Special Unitary group SU(3) and SU(N); Appendix D. Lorentz and Poincaré groups; Appendix E. Calculating with the Dirac delta distribution; Appendix F. Contour integration in the complex plane; Appendix G. Useful formulas with γ matrices; Appendix H. Fermi's golden rule and time dependent perturbation; References; Index.