This book contains write-ups of lectures from a summer school for advanced graduate students in elementary particle physics. In the first lecture, Scott Willenbrock gives an overview of the standard model of particle physics. This is followed by reviews of specific areas of standard model physics: precision electroweak analysis by James Wells, quantum chromodynamics and 10:35 AM 5/24/200610:35 AM 5/24/2006jets by George Stennan, and heavy quark effective field by Matthias Neubert. Developments in neutrino physics are discussed by AndrC) de Gouvea and the theory behind the Higgs boson is...
This book contains write-ups of lectures from a summer school for advanced graduate students in elementary particle physics. In the first lecture, Sco...