Elementary Particle Physics: Concepts and Phenomena

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Springer Science & Business Media, 06.12.2012 - 559 Seiten
This book grew-how could it be otherwise?-out of a series oflectures which the author held at the University of Heidelberg. The purpose ofthese lectures was to give an introduction to the phenomenology of elementary particles for students both of theoretical and experimental orientation. With the present book the author has set himself the same aim. The reader is assumed to be familiar with ordinary nonrelativistic quantum mechanics as presented, e.g., in the following books: Quantum Mechanics, by L.1. Schiff (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1955); Quantum Mechanics, Vol. I, by K. Gottfried (W.A. Benjamin, Reading, Ma., 1966). The setup of the present book is as follows. In the first part we present some basic general principles and concepts which are used in elementary particle physics. The reader is supposed to learn here the "language" of particle physics. An introductory chapter deals with special relativity, of such funda mental importance for particle physics, which most ofthe time is high energy, i.e., highly relativistic physics. Further chapters of this first part deal with the Dirac equation, with the theory of quantized fields, and with the general definitions of the scattering and transition matrices and the cross-sections.
 

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Introduction
3
The Theory of Special Relativity and Relativistic Kinematics
10
Phenomenology of Hadronic Reactions
16
Particles and Fields
33
The Dirac Equation and the Dirac Field
55
The Scattering Matrix and the Scattering CrossSection
80
Introductory Remarks
97
Further Aspects of the Theory of the Free Dirac Field
114
into Hadrons
302
The Electroweak Interaction
323
The Lagrange Densities of Quantum Flavor Dynamics
338
Decay Processes in the Standard Model and the Determination
372
The Neutral Current and the Determination of sin² 9w
395
The Physics of the Z W and Higgs Bosons
413
The System of Neutral KMesons and CP Violation
439
Order and Disorder in Elementary Particle Physics
460

Electromagnetic Coupling and the Perturbation Expansion
121
Simple Reactions in Quantum Electrodynamics
128
The Muon and Muon Pair Production in Electron
142
External Fields
149
Positronium
160
Radiative Corrections
171
Historical Overview 181
180
Internal Symmetries of the Strong Interaction and
223
The Naïve Parton Model
246
The Basic Principles of Quantum Chromodynamics
273
Jet and Quarkonium Physics
295
APPENDICES
470
The Groups SU2 and SU3
478
The Feynman Rules of QCD
485
F The Fierz Transformation
496
H The KobayashiMaskawa Matrix for Three Families
506
The WignerWeisskopf Approximation for the Description
509
J Solutions to Selected Exercises
522
References
537
Index
555
295
556
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