Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-294) and index.
Preface ; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION ; 1.1 Elementary Particles in the Standard Model ; 1.2 Interactions Among Fundamental Particles ; Chapter 2 WEAK INTERACTION ; 2.1 The Fermi Theory of Weak Interaction ; 2.1.1 Parity Violation in Weak Interaction
2.1.2 Road to Current-Current V -- A Interaction 2.1.2.1 Helicity and chirality ; 2.1.2.2 Observation of electron helicity in the B-decay ; 2.1.2.3 Determination of neutrino helicity ; 2.1.2.4 Angular correlation between e+ and v ; 2.1.2.5 V -- A interaction
2.1.3 Lepton Current Universality 2.1.4 Pion Decays ; 2.1.5 Cabibbo Currents ; 2.1.6 Difficulties in the Fermi Theory ; 2.1.7 Unitarity Violation ; 2.1.8 Non-renormalizability ; 2.2 Intermediate Weak Boson Model ; Chapter 3 SYMMETRIES AND THE GAUGE THEORIES
3.1 Global Symmetries and Noether's Theorem 3.2 Local Gauge Symmetries and Gauge Fields ; 3.2.1 Quantum Electrodynamics -- U(1) model- ; 3.2.2 Yang-Mills Gauge Theory -- SU(2) model- ; 3.3 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Goldstone Bosons ; 3.4 Higgs Mechanism
Chapter 4 THE STANDARD MODEL OF ELECTROWEAK INTERACTIONS 4.1 Fermions in the GWS Model ; 4.2 SU(2)L x U(1)Y Invariant Lagrangian ; 4.3 Spontaneous Breaking of SU(2)L X U(1)Y Symmetry ; 4.4 Charged and Neutral Currents Comparison with Effective Fermi Theory ; 4.5 Addition of More Leptons
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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.