Elementary Particle Physics: Concepts and PhenomenaSpringer 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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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 |
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