An introduction to the standard model of particle physics for the non-specialist /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Gerald E. Marsh, formerly of Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Hackensack, New Jersey :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2018]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
x, 154 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations (some color) ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Groups -- A semblance of the Dirac equation from groups -- Minimalist quantum mechanics -- Gauge principle -- Standard model beginnings -- Particles of the standard model and QCD -- Appendix A. The particle enigma -- Appendix B. Spinor representations of the Lorentz group -- Appendix C. The Schwinger term -- Appendix D. The cosmic microwave background radiation.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This book takes the reader from some elementary ideas about groups to the essence of the Standard Model of particle physics along a relatively straight and intuitive path. Groups alone are first used to arrive at a classical analog of the Dirac equation. Using elementary quantum mechanics, this analog can be turned into the actual Dirac equation, which governs the motion of the quarks and leptons of the Standard Model. After an introduction to the gauge principle, the groups introduced in the beginning of the book are used to give an introduction to the Standard Model. The idea is to give an Olympian view of this evolution, one that is often missing when absorbing the detailed subject matter of the Standard Model as presented in an historical approach to the subject"--