INTRODUCTION TO THE STANDARD MODEL OF PARTICLE PHYSICS FOR THE NON-SPECIALIST, AN - Hardcover

Gerald E Marsh

 
9789813232587: INTRODUCTION TO THE STANDARD MODEL OF PARTICLE PHYSICS FOR THE NON-SPECIALIST, AN
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9813232587 ISBN 13: 9789813232587
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2017

Synopsis

This book takes the reader from some elementary ideas about groups to the essence of the Standard Model of particle physics along a relatively straight and intuitive path. Groups alone are first used to arrive at a classical analog of the Dirac equation. Using elementary quantum mechanics, this analog can be turned into the actual Dirac equation, which governs the motion of the quarks and leptons of the Standard Model. After an introduction to the gauge principle, the groups introduced in the beginning of the book are used to give an introduction to the Standard Model. The idea is to give an Olympian view of this evolution, one that is often missing when absorbing the detailed subject matter of the Standard Model as presented in an historical approach to the subject.

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Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Company
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9813232587
ISBN 13 
9789813232587
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
164