UID:
edocfu_9959239887702883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 426 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
4th ed.
ISBN:
1-316-08498-1
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1-139-63633-2
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1-139-64888-8
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1-139-63843-2
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1-299-31896-7
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1-139-64791-1
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1-139-64127-1
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0-511-80904-2
Content:
This highly-regarded text provides an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to modern particle physics. Extensively rewritten and updated, this 4th edition includes all the recent developments in elementary particle physics, as well as its connections with cosmology and astrophysics. As in previous editions, the balance between experiment and theory is continually emphasised. The stress is on the phenomenological approach and basic theoretical concepts rather than rigorous mathematical detail. Short descriptions are given of some of the key experiments in the field, and how they have influenced our thinking. Although most of the material is presented in the context of the Standard Model of quarks and leptons, the shortcomings of this model and new physics beyond its compass (such as supersymmetry, neutrino mass and oscillations, GUTs and superstrings) are also discussed. The text includes many problems and a detailed and annotated further reading list.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Quarks and leptons; 1.1 Preamble; 1.2 The Standard Model of particle physics; 1.3 Particle classification: fermions and bosons; 1.4 Particles and antiparticles; 1.5 Free particle wave equations; 1.6 Helicity states: helicity conservation; 1.7 Lepton flavours; 1.8 Quark flavours; 1.9 The cosmic connection; Problems; 2 Interactions and fields; 2.1 Classical and quantum pictures of interactions; 2.2 The Yukawa theory of quantum exchange; 2.3 The boson propagator; 2.4 Feynman diagrams; 2.5 Electromagnetic interactions
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2.6 Renormalisation and gauge invariance2.7 Strong interactions; 2.8 Weak and electroweak interactions; 2.9 Gravitational interactions; 2.10 The interaction cross-section; 2.11 Decays and resonances; Problems; 3 Invariance principles and conservation laws; 3.1 Translation and rotation operators; 3.2 The parity operation; 3.3 Pion spin and parity; 3.4 Parity of particles and antiparticles; 3.5 Tests of parity conservation; 3.6 Charge conjugation invariance; 3.7 Charge conservation and gauge invariance; 3.8 Baryon and lepton conservation; 3.9 CPT invariance; 3.10 CP violation and T violation
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3.11 Neutron electric dipole moment3.12 Isospin symmetry; 3.13 Isospin in the two-nucleon and the pion-nucleon systems; 3.14 Isospin, strangeness and hypercharge; Problems; 4 Quarks in hadrons; 4.1 Charm and beauty; the heavy quarkonium states; 4.2 Comparison of quarkonium and positronium levels; 4.3 The baryon decuplet; 4.4 Quark spin and colour; 4.5 The baryon octet; 4.6 Quark-antiquark combinations: the light pseudoscalar mesons; 4.7 The light vector mesons; 4.8 Other tests of the quark model; 4.9 Mass relations and hyperfine interactions
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7.8 Conservation of weak currents
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-62196-8
Language:
English
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