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Klappentext This series will provide a broad range of high quality books, suitable for experimentalists and theorists, covering all aspects of particle physics, nuclear physics, cosmology, and the interfaces between them. Publications in the series will range from experimentally - oriented books, for example on accelerators and detectors, to books describing broad areas of theory and the supporting experimental data. Zusammenfassung This work presents! in two volumes! a comprehensive and unified treatment of modern theoretical and experimental particle physics at a level accessible to beginning research students. Volume 1 covers electroweak interactions! the discovery and properties of the 'new' particles! the discovery of partons and the construction and predictions of the simple parton model. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Field theory and pre-gauge theory weak interactions; 2. The need for a gauge theory; 3. Spontaneous symmetry breaking: the Goldstone theorem and the Higgs phenomenon; 4. Construction of the Standard Model; 5. Lowest order tests of the Standard Model in the leptonic sector; 6. The Higgs boson; 7. The Standard Model beyond lowest order; 8. e+e- physics and the Standard Model; 9. Extension to the hadrons; 10. Phenomenology of semi-leptonic reactions; 11. The discovery of the narrow vector resonances; 12. Hidden flavour bound states; 13. Open heavy flavours; 14. The heavy lepton tau; 15. Toward the parton model - deep inelastic scattering; 16. The quark-parton model; 17. Experimental tests of the quark-parton model; Appendices; References; Index.
