An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics - Hardcover

Cottingham, W. N.; Greenwood, D. A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521852498 ISBN 13: 9780521852494

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

The second edition of this introductory graduate textbook provides a concise but accessible introduction to the Standard Model. It has been updated to account for the successes of the theory of strong interactions, and the observations on matter-antimatter asymmetry. It has become clear that neutrinos are not mass-less, and this book gives a coherent presentation of the phenomena and the theory that describes them. It includes an account of progress in the theory of strong interactions and of advances in neutrino physics. The book clearly develops the theoretical concepts from the electromagnetic and weak interactions of leptons and quarks to the strong interactions of quarks. Each chapter ends with problems, and hints to selected problems are provided at the end of the book. The mathematical treatments are suitable for graduates in physics, and more sophisticated mathematical ideas are developed in the text and appendices.

About this title

About the Authors

Noel Cottingham is a theoretician working in the H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory at the University of Bristol.

Derek Greenwood is a theoretician working in the H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory at the University of Bristol.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521852498
• ISBN 13: 9780521852494
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 294