Advanced Concepts in Particle and Field Theory

Uniting the usually distinct areas of particle physics and quantum field theory, gravity and general relativity, this expansive textbook describes the quest to consolidate the elementary particles that are the fundamental building blocks of nature. This 2015 title has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

List of contents

Part I. Preliminaries: 1. The nature of observing nature; 2. Fundamental physics: elementary particles and processes; Part II. The Standard Model: 3. Physics in spacetime; 4. The quark model: combinatorics and groups; 5. Gauge symmetries and interactions; 6. Non-abelian gauge symmetries and interactions; 7. The standard model; Part III. Beyond the Standard Model: 8. Unification: the fabric of understanding nature; 9. Gravity and the geometrization of physics; 10. Supersymmetry: boson-fermion unification; 11. Strings: unification of all foundations of reality; Part IV. Appendices: A. Groups: structure and notation; B. A lexicon; C. A few more details; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Tristan (Howard University Hubsch, Tristan Hübsch
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781009291521
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0929152-1
• No. of pages: 575
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory)