Elementary Particle Physics Quantum Field Theory and Particles V1

by Nagashima, Yorikiyo; Nambu, Yoichiro

• ISBN13: 9783527409624
• ISBN10: 3527409629
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-14
• Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Summary

The field of High Energy Physics is experiencing a strong renaissance for several reasons: one, the advent of the new Large Hadron Collider at CERN in geneva, along with unprecedented computing power for theoretical computations; second, new telescopes in astronomy to investigate high energy events in space. Besides existing and established texts and MRW, a coherently written and comprehensive compendium bridging the gap between texts on field theory and particle physics is needed, but lacking so far. This book fills this gap.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

A Field Theoretical Approach

Introduction

Particles and Fields

Lorentz Invariance

Dirac Equation

Field Quantization

Scattering Matrix

QED: Quantum Electrodynamics

Radiative Corrections and Tests of Qed

Symmetries

Path Integral: Basics

Path Integral Approach to Field Theory

Accelerator and Detector Technology

A Way to the Standard Model

Spectroscopy

The Quark Model

Weak Interaction

Neutral Kaons and CP Violation

Hadron Structure

Gauge Theories

Epilogue

Appendices

Spinor Representation

Coulomb gauge

Dirac matrix and gamma matrix traces

Dimensional Regularization

Rotation Matrix

C,P,T Transformation

SU(3), SU(N) and the Quark Model

Mass Matix and Decaying States

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