Lectures on the ElectroWeak Interactions

Elementary particle physics is the quadrant of nature whose laws can be written in a few lines with absolute precision and the greatest empirical adequacy. Thus these lectures aim at introducing students and interested readers to the entire subject in a compact way.

List of contents

1. The Fermi theory of neutron decay.- 2. The Lagrangian of the Standard Model, including neutrino masses.- 3. The main predictions of the Standard Model.- 4. Precision tests.- 5. Flavour Physics.- 6. CP violation.- 7. Basics of neutrino physics.- 8. Neutrino oscillations.- 9. The naturalness problem of the Fermi scale.- 10. The main drawback of the Standard Model.- 11. Appendices.

Summary

Elementary particle physics is the quadrant of nature whose laws can be written in a few lines with absolute precision and the greatest empirical adequacy. Thus these lectures aim at introducing students and interested readers to the entire subject in a compact way.

Product details

• Authors: Riccardo Barbieri
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2011
• EAN: 9788876423116
• ISBN: 978-88-7642-311-6
• No. of pages: 84
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 9 mm x 241 mm
• Weight: 220 g
• Illustrations: XII, 84 p.
• Series: Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore (PSNS); Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore; Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore / Lecture Notes (Scuola Normale Superiore); Lecture Notes (Scuola Normale Superiore); Publications of the Scuola Nor; Publications of the Scuola Nor; Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore; Lecture Notes (Scuola Normale Superiore)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; B, Physics and Astronomy, Quantum field theory, Elementary particles (Physics), Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory