A Modern Introduction to Particle Physics

by Fayyazuddin

• ISBN13: 9789810210731
• ISBN10: 9810210736
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1992-09-25
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing

Summary

In this second edition, many chapters (e.g. on electroweak unification) have been revised to bring them up to date. In particular, the chapters neutrino physics, particle mixing and CP violation and weak decays of heavy flavors have beer rewritten incorporating new material and new data. The heavy quark effective theory has been included.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Fundamental Forces	p. 1
Classification of Matter: Leptons and Quarks	p. 8
Strong Color Charges	p. 11
Fundamental Role of "Charges" and the Standard Model of Electroweak Unification and Strong Force	p. 13
Strong Quark-Quark Force	p. 20
Grand Unification	p. 23
Supersymmetry	p. 25
Supergravity	p. 26
Superstring Theory	p. 27
Units and Notation	p. 28
Scattering and Particle Interactions
Kinematics of a Scattering Process	p. 31
Interaction Picture	p. 35
Scattering Matrix (S-matrix)	p. 37
Phase Space	p. 42
Examples	p. 45
Electromagnetic Interaction	p. 57
Weak Interaction	p. 60
Hadronic Cross-Section	p. 63
Space-Time Symmetries
Invariance Principle	p. 67
Parity	p. 69
Intrinsic Parity	p. 72
Parity Constraints on S-Matrix for Hadronic Reactions	p. 76
Time Reversal	p. 79
Applications: Detailed Balance Principle	p. 82
Unitarity Constraints	p. 86
Internal Symmetries
Selection Rules and Globally Conserved Quantum Numbers	p. 101
Isospin	p. 109
Resonance Production	p. 114
Charge Conjugation	p. 122
G-Parity	p. 127
Unitary Groups and SU(3)
Isospin: SU(2)	p. 133
Unitary Groups and SU(3)	p. 140
Particle Representations in Flavor SU(3)	p. 146
U-Spin	p. 162
Irreducible Representations of SU(3)	p. 162
SU(N)	p. 173
Triality in SU(3)	p. 179
Applications of Flavor SU(3)	p. 181
Mass Splitting in Flavor SU(3)	p. 187
SU(6) and Quark Model
SU(6)	p. 200
Magnetic Moments of Baryons	p. 210
Radiative Decays of Vector Mesons	p. 217
Color, Gauge Principle and Quantum Chromodynamics
Evidence for Color	p. 228
Gauge Principle	p. 232
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)	p. 239
Hadron Spectroscopy	p. 249
The Mass Spectrum	p. 257
Heavy Flavors
Discovery of Charm	p. 272
Charm	p. 275
The Fifth Quark Flavor	p. 281
Quarkonium	p. 282
Leptonic Decay Width of Quarkonium	p. 289
Hadronic Decay Width	p. 290
Non-Relativistic Treatment of Quarkonium	p. 293
Neutrino
Introduction	p. 306
Mass, Experimental Limits	p. 307
Mass, Theoretical Considerations	p. 312
Neutrino Oscillations	p. 317
Solar Neutrinos	p. 321
Weak Interactions
V-A Interaction	p. 337
Classification of Weak Processes	p. 340
Properties of Weak Hadronic Currents and Chiral Symmetry
Introduction	p. 377
Conserved Vector Current Hypothesis (CVC)	p. 378
Partially Conserved Axial Vector Current Hypothesis (PCAC)	p. 381
Current Algebra and Chiral Symmetry	p. 384
Axial Anomaly	p. 394
QCD Sum Rules	p. 397
Electroweak Unification
Introduction
Spontaneous Gauge Symmetry Breaking	p. 403
Electroweak Unification	p. 409
Decays Widths of W and Z Bosons	p. 425
Production of W and Z Bosons	p. 429
Tests of Yang-Mills Character of Gauge Bosons	p. 434
Higgs Boson Mass	p. 439
Higgs Boson Searches	p. 442
GIM Mechanism	p. 448
Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) Matrix	p. 451
Axial Anomaly	p. 455
Grand Unification of Forces	p. 460
Deep Inelastic Scattering
Introduction	p. 472
Deep-Inelastic Lepton-Nucleon Scattering	p. 474
Parton Model	p. 481
Deep Inelastic Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering	p. 486
Sum Rules	p. 489
Deep-Inelastic Scattering Involving Neutral Weak Currents	p. 496
Particle Mixing and CP Violation
General Formalism	p. 500
[actual symbol not reproducible] Mixing and CP-Violation	p. 508
CP Violation in [actual symbol not reproducible] System	p. 520
Weak Decays of Heavy Flavors
Leptonic Decay of [tau] Lepton	p. 531
Semi-Hadronic Decays of [tau] Lepton	p. 533
Weak Decays of Heavy Flavors	p. 540
Cosmology and Particle Physics
Cosmological Principle and Expansion of the Universe	p. 565
The Standard Model of Cosmology	p. 568
Thermal Equilibrium	p. 573
The Radiation Era	p. 576
Freeze Out	p. 580
Limit on Neutrino Mass	p. 585
Primordial Nucleosynthesis	p. 587
Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe: Baryogenesis	p. 590
Inflation	p. 594
Appendix A: Quantum Field Theory [A Summary]
Appendix B: Renormalization Group and Running Coupling Constant
Subject Index	p. 643
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