UID:
almahu_9948025775502882
Format:
1 online resource (265 p.)
ISBN:
1-281-01305-6
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9786611013059
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0-08-049830-2
Series Statement:
Philosophy and foundations of physics, v. 2
Content:
This book provides a philosophically informed and mathematically rigorous introduction to the 'standard model' of particle physics. The standard model is the currently accepted and experimentally verified model of all the particles and interactions in our universe. All the elementary particles in our universe, and all the non-gravitational interactions -the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, and the electromagnetic force - are collected together and, in the case of the weak and electromagnetic forces, unified in the standard model. Rather than presenting the calculational re
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; The Structure and Interpretation of the Standard Model; Copyright page; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Matter Fields; 2.1. The local space-time symmetry group; 2.2. The configuration space approach; 2.3. Curved space-time; 2.4. The Wigner approach; 2.5. Parity; 2.6. Free particles in other universes; 2.7. Natural bundles; 2.8. Spinor bundles; 2.9. Electrons and neutrinos; 2.10. Particles and anti-particles; 2.11. Fock space and second quantization; Chapter 3. Gauge Fields; 3.1. Principal fibre bundles and G-structures; 3.2. Classification of principal G-bundles
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3.3. Gauge connections3.4. Choice of gauge and gauge transformations; 3.5. Gauge field curvature; 3.6. The interaction bundle picture; Chapter 4. Interactions; 4.1. Interacting fields; 4.2. Interaction symmetries; 4.3. The electroweak gauge connection bundle; 4.4. The Higgs field; 4.5. Minimal coupling; 4.6. The Lagrangian approach; 4.7. Quark colours; 4.8. Quark mixing and the Cabibbo angle; 4.9. The standard model Lagrangian; 4.10. Gauge fields in other universes; 4.11. Composite systems; 4.12. Baryons, mesons and hadron symmetries; 4.13. Elementary particles and intrinsic properties
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Chapter 5. Standard Model Gauge Groups and Representations5.1. The structure of compact groups; 5.2. Standard model irreducible representations; 5.3. The standard model gauge group; 5.4. Duality and triality; 5.5. The electroweak gauge group; 5.6. The electromagnetic subgroup; Chapter 6. The Standard Model Interacting-Particle Bundle; 6.1. Standard model electroweak-unified bundles; 6.2. Standard model electroweak-broken bundles; Appendices; Appendix A. Topology; Appendix B. Lie Groups and Lie Algebras; Appendix C. Fibre Bundles; Appendix D. Representations of SL(2,C)|xR3,1 on F(M,Cn)
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Appendix E. The Method of Induced RepresentationAppendix F. Canonical Field Quantization; Appendix G. Photons and the Gupta-Bleuler Technique; Appendix H. Component Expression of the Curvature Two-Form; Appendix I. Elementary Particles in String Theory; Appendix J. The Structure Theorem for Compact, Connected Lie Groups; Appendix K. Irreducible Representations of U(1); Appendix L. Non-Integral Charge and Hypercharge; Appendix M. Representations onto Spaces Tensored with C1; Appendix N. Electroweak Interaction Bundles; Bibliography; Further reading; Subject Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-444-53112-2
Language:
English
