Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics

"The third edition of this successful textbook reflects the progress of field, including the latest studies of the Higgs boson, quark-gluon plasma, progress in flavour and neutrino physics and the discovery of gravitational waves. It provides undergraduate students with the basic elements of the Standard Model of particle physics"--

List of contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Preliminary notions; 2. Nucleons, leptons and mesons; 3. Symmetries; 4. Hadrons; 5. Quantum electrodynamics; 6. Chromodynamics; 7. Weak interactions; 8. Oscillations and CP violation in quarks; 9. The Standard Model; 10. Neutrinos; 11. Gravitational waves; Epilogue; Appendices; Solutions; References; Index.

About the author

Alessandro Bettini is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Padua, Italy and a Research Associate of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). He has served the INFN as Director of the Padova section, Vice-president and Director of the Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS), the IUPAP as Chair of the Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics and Gravitation International Committee and the Spanish Government as Director of the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC). He is the author more than of 200 scientific publications, eight university textbooks and two books for the general public. He is a Fellow of the European Physical Society, 'Socio Benemerito' of the Italian Physical Society (SIF) and a member of the Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lattere e Arti.

Product details

• Authors: Alessandro Bettini, Alessandro (Universita Degli Studi DI Pad Bettini, Alessandro (Universita degli Studi di Padova Bettini, Bettini Alessandro
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2024
• EAN: 9781009440738
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0944073-8
• No. of pages: 532
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear, Particle & high-energy physics, Mathematical physics, Particle and high-energy physics, For higher / tertiary / university education, Textbook, coursework