[PDF] Concepts In Particle Physics A Concise Introduction To The Standard Model eBook

Author : V Parameswaran Nair
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9813227575

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The 2013 discovery of the Higgs boson posed a challenge to both physics undergraduates and their instructors. Since particle physics is seldom taught at the undergraduate level, the question 'what is the Higgs and why does its discovery matter?' is a common question among undergraduates. Equally, answering this question is a problem for physics instructors.This book is an attempt to put the key concepts of particle physics together in an appealing way, and yet give enough extra tidbits for students seriously considering graduate studies in particle physics. It starts with some recapitulation of relativity and quantum mechanics, and then builds on it to give both conceptual ideas regarding the Standard Model of particle physics as well as technical details. It is presented in an informal lecture style, and includes 'remarks' sections where extra material, history, or technical details are presented for the interested student. The last lecture presents an assessment of the open questions, and where the future might take us.

Author : Chong-sa Lim
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 36,33 MB
Release : 2004-04-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9814491411

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This book provides a unified description of elementary particle interactions and the underlying theories, namely the Standard Model and beyond. The authors have aimed at a concise presentation but have taken care that all the basic concepts are clearly described. Written primarily for graduate students in theoretical and experimental particle physics, The Physics of the Standard Model and Beyond conveys the excitement of particle physics, centering upon experimental observations (new and old) and a variety of ideas for their interpretation.

Author : W. N. Cottingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 31,14 MB
Release : 2001-02-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521657334

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A clear and concise introduction to nuclear physics suitable for a core undergraduate physics course.

Author : Brian R. Martin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 1118681665

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An essential introduction to particle physics, with coverage ranging from the basics through to the very latest developments, in an accessible and carefully structured text. Particle Physics: Third Edition is a revision of a highly regarded introduction to particle physics. In its two previous editions this book has proved to be an accessible and balanced introduction to modern particle physics, suitable for those students needed a more comprehensive introduction to the subject than provided by the ‘compendium’ style physics books. In the Third Edition the standard model of particle physics is carefully developed whilst unnecessary mathematical formalism is avoided where possible. Emphasis is placed on the interpretation of experimental data in terms of the basic properties of quarks and leptons. One of the major developments of the past decade has been the establishing of the existence of neutrino oscillations. This will have a profound effect on the plans of experimentalists. This latest edition brings the text fully up-to-date, and includes new sections on neutrino physics, as well as expanded coverage of detectors, such as the LHC detector. End of chapter problems with a full set of hints for their solutions provided at the end of the book. An accessible and carefully structured introduction to this demanding subject. Includes more advanced material in optional ‘starred’ sections. Coverage of the foundations of the subject, as well as the very latest developments.

Author : W. N. Cottingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139462210

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The second edition of this introductory graduate textbook provides a concise but accessible introduction to the Standard Model. It has been updated to account for the successes of the theory of strong interactions, and the observations on matter-antimatter asymmetry. It has become clear that neutrinos are not mass-less, and this book gives a coherent presentation of the phenomena and the theory that describes them. It includes an account of progress in the theory of strong interactions and of advances in neutrino physics. The book clearly develops the theoretical concepts from the electromagnetic and weak interactions of leptons and quarks to the strong interactions of quarks. Each chapter ends with problems, and hints to selected problems are provided at the end of the book. The mathematical treatments are suitable for graduates in physics, and more sophisticated mathematical ideas are developed in the text and appendices.

Author : Kurt Gottfried
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Nuclear physics
ISBN : 0195033930

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1. Quantum Electrodynamics2. Hadronic Spectroscopy3. Quantum Chromodynamics4. Deep Inelastic Lepton-Hadron Scattering5. The Electroweak Interaction.Appendices: Bose Fields, the Dirac Field, Causality and its Consequences, Vacuum Polarization, Solutions of Dirac's Equation in a Spherical Enclosure.

Author : Robert Mann
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 2009-11-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1420083007

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An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics familiarizes readers with what is considered tested and accepted and in so doing, gives them a grounding in particle physics in general. Whenever possible, Dr. Mann takes an historical approach showing how the model is linked to the physics that most of us have learned in less challenging ar

Author : Gerald E Marsh
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 35,28 MB
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9813232609

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This book takes the reader from some elementary ideas about groups to the essence of the Standard Model of particle physics along a relatively straight and intuitive path. Groups alone are first used to arrive at a classical analog of the Dirac equation. Using elementary quantum mechanics, this analog can be turned into the actual Dirac equation, which governs the motion of the quarks and leptons of the Standard Model. After an introduction to the gauge principle, the groups introduced in the beginning of the book are used to give an introduction to the Standard Model. The idea is to give an Olympian view of this evolution, one that is often missing when absorbing the detailed subject matter of the Standard Model as presented in an historical approach to the subject.

Author : W. Noel Cottingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 34,91 MB
Release : 1998-11-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521588324

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This introductory graduate textbook provides a concise but accessible introduction to the Standard Model of particle physics. Throughout the book, theoretical concepts are developed clearly and carefully - from the electromagnetic and weak interactions of leptons and quarks to the strong interactions of quarks. Chapters developing the theory are interspersed with chapters describing some of the wealth of experimental data supporting the model. To consolidate understanding, each chapter is rounded off with a set of problems and outline solutions. The book assumes only the standard mathematics taught in an undergraduate physics course; more sophisticated mathematical ideas are developed in the text and in appendices. For graduate students in particle physics and physicists working in other fields who are interested in the current understanding of the ultimate constituents of matter, this textbook provides a lucid and up-to-date introduction.