Fundamentals of Particle Physics - Understanding the Standard Model

"A modern introduction to the Standard Model of particle physics written for a two-semester course at graduate or advanced undergraduate level. Bridging between basic descriptive books and purely theoretical works, it presents all aspects of the field, including step-by-step explanations of the theory and the most recent experimental results"--

List of contents

Preface; Notation and Constants; 1. Particle physics landscape; 2. Preliminary concepts: special relativity and quantum mechanics; 3. Collisions and decays; 4. Conservation rules and symmetries; 5. From wave functions to quantum fields; 6. A brief overview of quantum electrodynamics; 7. From hadrons to partons; 8. Quantum Chromodynamics; 9. Weak interaction; 10. Electroweak interaction; 11. Electroweak symmetry breaking; 12. The Standard Model and beyond; Appendix A. Elements of group theory for particle physics; Appendix B. Special Unitary group SU(2); Appendix C. Special Unitary group SU(3) and SU(N); Appendix D. Lorentz and Poincaré groups; Appendix E. Calculating with the Dirac delta distribution; Appendix F. Contour integration in the complex plane; Appendix G. Useful formulas with ¿ matrices; Appendix H. Fermi's golden rule and time dependent perturbation; References; Index.

About the author

Pascal Paganini is a professor at the École Polytechnique near Paris and researcher at CNRS, where he has lectured for many years on particle physics for undergraduate and graduate students. As an experimental particle physicist, he has engaged in several experiments at CERN, including the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. More recently, he has been involved in the Super-Kamiokande neutrino experiment in Japan, and designing its next-generation successor, Hyper-Kamiokande.

Product details

• Authors: Pascal Paganini, Pascal (Ecole Polytechnique Paganini
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781009171588
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0917158-8
• No. of pages: 550
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; SCIENCE / Physics / Mathematical & Computational, SCIENCE / Scientific Instruments, SCIENCE / Laboratory Techniques, Scientific equipment, experiments & techniques, Particle & high-energy physics, Mathematical physics, Scientific equipment, experiments and techniques, Particle and high-energy physics, SCIENCE / Physics / Particle, For graduate / post-graduate and equivalents