Computing Particle Properties

These lectures are intended for graduate students and researchers studying methods for the prediction of properties of elementary particles. Today's theory does not allow ab initio computation of all properties of particles like leptons and quarks. However, the understanding of the standard model, and in particular of QCD, has reached a state where many features can be computed from the theory with little further input, at least to some approximation. A summary of the state of the art for these quantities is also given from the phenomenological point of view.

The contributions to this book are meant as an introduction to modern research for graduate students

Autorentext
Dr. Christian B. Lang lehrt und forscht als Professor für Theoretische Physik an der Universität Graz. Seine Arbeitsgebiete umfassen die Elementarteilchenphysik, Statistische Physik und Computational Physics.

Inhalt
The heavy hadron spectrum.- Non-perturbative renormalization of QCD.- The proton spin and flavor structure in the chiral quark model.- Electroweak symmetry breaking and higgs physics.- Supersymmetric extensions of the standard model.- The solar neutrino problem and solar neutrino oscillations in vacuum and in matter.- Abstracts of the seminars.