Michael E. Peskin, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University.
First edition.
New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
xii, 380 pages :
illustrations (some color) ;
25 cm
Oxford master series in particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology ;
26
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-376) and index.
I.Preliminaries and tools -- Introduction -- Symmetries of space-time -- Relativistic wave equations -- The hydrogen atom and positronium -- The quark model -- Detectors of elementary particles -- Tools for calculation -- II. The strong interaction -- Electron-positron annihilation -- Deep inelastic electron scattering -- The gluon -- Quantum chromodynamics -- Partons and jets -- QCD at hadron colliders -- Chiral symmetry -- III.The weak interaction -- The current-current model of the weak interaction -- Gauge theories with spontaneous symmetry breaking -- The W and Z bosons -- Quark mixing angles and weak decays -- CP violation -- Neutrino masses and mixings -- The Higgs boson -- Epilogue.