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Informationen zum Autor Professor Brian R Martin, Emeritus, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London, UK Brian Martin was a full-time member of staff of the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UCL from 1968 to 1995, including a decade from 1994 to 2004 as Head of the Department. He retired in 2005 and now holds the title of Emeritus Professor of Physics. He has extensive experience of teaching undergraduate mathematics classes at all levels and experience of other universities via external examining for first degrees at Imperial College and Royal Holloway College London. He was also the external member of the General Board of the Department of Physics at Cambridge University that reviewed the whole academic programme of that department, including teaching. Dr Graham Shaw, School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Manchester, UK Graham Shaw (http: //www.hep.man.ac.uk/u/graham/) was a full-time member of staff of the School of Physics & Astronomy at Manchester University until September 2009. He continued to teach part-time until September 2012 and currently holds an honorary position in the department. He has extensive experience of teaching undergraduate physics and the associated mathematics and was a member of the school's Teaching Committee and Course Director of the Honours School of Mathematics and Physics for many years. Klappentext An accessible and carefully structured introduction to Particle Physics, including important coverage of the Higgs Boson and recent progress in neutrino physics.* Fourth edition of this successful title in the Manchester Physics series* Includes information on recent key discoveries including: An account of the discovery of exotic hadrons, byond the simple quark model; Expanded treatments of neutrino physics and CP violation in B-decays; An updated account of 'physics beyond the standard model', including the interaction of particle physics with cosmology* Additional problems in all chapters, with solutions to selected problems available on the book's website* Advanced material appears in optional starred sections Zusammenfassung An accessible and carefully structured introduction to Particle Physics, including important coverage of the Higgs Boson and recent progress in neutrino physics.* Fourth edition of this successful title in the Manchester Physics series* Includes information on recent key discoveries including: An account of the discovery of exotic hadrons, byond the simple quark model; Expanded treatments of neutrino physics and CP violation in B-decays; An updated account of 'physics beyond the standard model', including the interaction of particle physics with cosmology* Additional problems in all chapters, with solutions to selected problems available on the book's website* Advanced material appears in optional starred sections Inhaltsverzeichnis Suggested Short Course Inside Front CoverEditors' preface to the Manchester Physics Series xiiiAuthors' preface xvNotes xvii1 Some basic concepts 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Antiparticles 31.3 Interactions and Feynman diagrams 91.4 Particle exchange 151.5 Units and dimensions 19Problems 1 222 Leptons and the weak interaction 242.1 Lepton multiplets and lepton numbers 242.2 Leptonic weak interactions 312.3 Neutrino masses and neutrino mixing 35Problems 2 503 Quarks and hadrons 523.1 Quarks 533.2 General properties of hadrons 553.3 Pions and nucleons 583.4 Strange particles, charm and bottom 613.5 Short-lived hadrons 663.6 Allowed and exotic quantum numbers 72Problems 3 754 Experimental methods 774.1 Overview 774.2 Accelerators and beams 794.3 Particle interactions with matter 864.4 Particle detectors 954.5 Detector systems and accelerator experiments 1124.6 Non-accelerator experiments 121Problems 4 1235 Space-time symmetries 1265.1 Translational invariance...
