Concepts of Elementary Particle Physics

by Peskin, Michael E.

• ISBN13: 9780191850301
• ISBN10: 0191850306
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2019-11-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Michael E. Peskin, Professor of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, SLAC, Stanford University

Michael E. Peskin received his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in 1978. He held postdoctoral appointments at Harvard, Cornell, and C.E.N. Saclay. In 1982, he joined the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, where he is now a Professor of Particle Physics and Astrophysics.

Table of Contents

I Preliminaries and Tools
1. Introduction
2. Symmetries of Space-Time
3. Relativistic Wave Equations
4. The Hydrogen Atom and Positronium
5. The Quark Model
6. Detectors of Elementary Particles
7. Tools for Calculation
II The Strong Interaction
8. Electron-Positron Annihilation
9. Deep Inelastic Electron Scattering
10. The Gluon
11. Quantum Chromodynamics
12. Partons and Jets
13. QCD at Hadron Colliders
14. Chiral Symmetry
III The Weak Interaction
15. The Current-Current Model of the Weak Interaction
16. Gauge Theories with Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
17. The W and Z Bosons
18. Quark Mixing Angles and Weak Decays
19. CP Violation
20. Neutrino Masses and Mixings
21. The Higgs Boson
22. Epilogue