ISBN-13: 9789810238346 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 444 str.
This volume presents the current status of the Standard Model of the electroweak interactions and Higgs physics, aspects of QCD and supersymmetry, and provides particle physics background for astrophysical applications. In addition, there is in-depth coverage of inflation, high temperature field theory and phase transitions in the early universe, baryogenesis, dark matter and structure formation.