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Meeting the need for a coherently written and comprehensive compendium combining field theory and particle physics for advanced students and researchers, this book directly links the theory to the experiments. It is clearly divided into two sections covering approaches to field theory and the standard model, and rounded off with numerous useful appendices.A timely volume for high energy and theoretical physicists, as well as astronomers, graduate students and lecturers in physics.Volume 2 concentrates on the main aspects of the Standard Model by addressing its recent developments and future prospects. Furthermore, it gives some thought to intriguing ideas beyond the Standard Model, including the Higgs boson, the neutrino, the concepts of the Grand Unified Theory and supersymmetry, axions, and cosmological developments.
List of contents
Part I: A Field Theoretical Approach1. Introduction2. Particles and Fields3. Lorentz Invariance4. Dirac Equation5. Field Quantization6. Scattering Matrix7. QED: Quantum Electrodynamics8. Radiative Corrections and Tests of Qed9. Symmetries10. Path Integral : Basics11. Path Integral Approach to Field Theory12. Accelerator and Detector TechnologyPart II: A Way to the Standard Model13. Spectroscopy14. The Quark Model15. Weak Interaction16. Neutral Kaons and CP Violation17. Hadron Structure18. Gauge Theories19. EpilogueAppendicesA. Spinor RepresentationB. Coulomb gaugeC. Dirac matrix and gamma matrix tracesD. Dimensional RegularizationE. Rotation MatrixF. C,P,T TransformationG. SU(3), SU(N) and the Quark ModelH. Mass Matix and Decaying States
About the author
Yorikiyo Nagashima is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Physics of Osaka University, Japan. An organizer of international conferences, he is also a member of the most important collaboration groups in his field of expertise, including those related to neutrino research. Professor Nagashima was the spokesman of the VENUS group, one of the major detectors of the Japanese first collider accelerator TORISTAN, where he served the first and second term at the start of the project. Professor Nagashima has authored or co-authored 296 papers, some of them cited up to 250 times.
Summary
Meeting the need for a coherently written and comprehensive compendium combining field theory and particle physics for advanced students and researchers, this book directly links the theory to the experiments. It is clearly divided into two sections covering approaches to field theory and the standard model, and rounded off with numerous useful appendices.
A timely volume for high energy and theoretical physicists, as well as astronomers, graduate students and lecturers in physics.
Volume 2 concentrates on the main aspects of the Standard Model by addressing its recent developments and future prospects. Furthermore, it gives some thought to intriguing ideas beyond the Standard Model, including the Higgs boson, the neutrino, the concepts of the Grand Unified Theory and supersymmetry, axions, and cosmological developments.
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"A timely volume for high energy and theoretical physicists, as well as astronomers, graduate students and lecturers in physics." (PR-Inside.com, 15 February 2011)
