Modern Elementary Particle Physics
by Kane, Gordon L.Edition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-04-20
Publisher(s): Westview Pr
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Summary
Updated edition includes descriptions of recent powerful tests of the theory at European and U.S. colliders. Avoids the technical details, but fully explains the basic physics involved. DLC: Particles (Nuclear physics)
Author Biography
Gordon Kane is an internationally acclaimed particle physicist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is a popular public lecturer and the author of The Particle Garden.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| The Standard Model | |
| Survey | p. 1 |
| Relativistic Notation, Lagrangians, Currents, and Interactions | p. 15 |
| Gauge Invariance | p. 35 |
| Non-Abelian Gauge Theories | p. 43 |
| Dirac Notation for Spin | p. 55 |
| The Standard Model Lagrangian | p. 71 |
| The Electroweak Theory and Quantum Chromodynamics | p. 81 |
| Masses and the Higgs Mechanism | p. 97 |
| Cross Sections, Decay Widths, and Lifetimes; W and Z Decays | p. 117 |
| Production of W[actual symbol not reproducible] and Z[superscript 0] | p. 133 |
| Measurement of Electroweak and QCD Parameters; the Muon Lifetime | p. 145 |
| Accelerators - Present and Future | p. 157 |
| Experiments and Detectors | p. 167 |
| Low Energy and Non-Accelerator Experiments | p. 177 |
| Quarks, Confinement, Light Mesons, Baryons, Jets, and Glueballs | p. 179 |
| Light Mesons, Baryons, and Strong Isospin | p. 189 |
| Heavy Quarks (c, b, t) | p. 195 |
| Deep Inelastic Scattering and Structure Functions | p. 205 |
| e+e- Colliders and Tests of the Standard Model | p. 217 |
| Coupling Strengths Depend on the Momentum Transfer and on Virtual Particles | p. 229 |
| Production and Detection of a Higgs Boson | p. 243 |
| Quark (and Lepton) Mixing Angles | p. 255 |
| Quark and Hadron Masses | p. 261 |
| CP Violation | p. 263 |
| Why the t-Quark and the [tau]-Neutrino Must Exist | p. 267 |
| Applications of the Standard Model to Questions Beyond the Standard Model | |
| Open Questions | p. 273 |
| Grand Unification | p. 277 |
| Supersymmetry | p. 293 |
| Neutrino Masses? | p. 303 |
| App. A. Angular Momentum and Spin and SU(2) | p. 313 |
| App. B. Some Group Theory | p. 319 |
| App. C. Some Relativistic Kinematics | p. 327 |
| App. D. The Point Cross Section | p. 331 |
| App. E. When Are Our Approximations Not Valid? | p. 333 |
| App. F. Lagrangians and Symmetries; The Euler-Lagrange Equations | p. 335 |
| Bibliography | p. 339 |
| Index | p. 345 |
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