Electroweak and Strong Interactions

Electroweak and Strong Interaction: Phenomenology, Concepts, Models, begins with relativistic quantum mechanics and some quantum field theory which lay the foundation for the rest of the text. The phenomenology and the physics of the fundamental interactions are emphasized through a detailed discussion of the empirical fundamentals of unified theories of strong, electromagnetic, and weak interactions. The principles of local gauge theories are described both in a heuristic and a geometric framework. The minimal standard model of the fundamental interactions is developed in detail and characteristic applications are worked out. Possible signals of physics beyond that model, notably in the physics of neutrinos are also discussed. Among the applications scattering on nucleons and on nuclei provide salient examples. Numerous exercises with solutions make the text suitable for advanced courses or individual study. This completely updated revised new edition contains an enlarged chapter on quantum chromodynamics and a widely updated chapter on neutrino physics.

Auteur

Professor Scheck, University Mainz. Professor emeritus since 2005. Principal field of activity: Theoretical particle physics.

Texte du rabat

After an introduction to relativistic quantum mechanics, which lays the foundation for the rest of the text, the author moves on to the phenomenology and physics of fundamental interactions via a detailed discussion of the empirical principles of unified theories of strong, electromagnetic, and weak interactions. There then follows a development of local gauge theories and the minimal standard model of the fundamental interactions together with their characteristic applications. The book concludes with further possibilities and the theory of interactions for elementary particles probing complex nuclei.
Numerous exercises with solutions make this an ideal text for graduate courses on quantum mechanics and elementary particle physics.

Contenu

Fermion Fields and their Properties.- Electromagnetic Processes and Interactions.- Weak Interactions and the Standard Model of Strong and Electroweak Interactions.- Beyond the Minimal Standard Model.- Scattering of Strongly Interacting Particles on Nuclei.- Hadronic Atoms.- Quantum Chromodynamics.- Neutrino Physics.- Appendix A. Lorentz Invariant Distributions.- Appendix B. S-Matrix, Cross Sections, Decay Probabilities.- Appendix C1. Some Feynman Rules for Quantum Electrodynamics of Spin-1/2 Particles f+-.- Appendix C2. Traces. Appendix D. The Group SU(3).- Appendix E. Dirac Equation with Central Fields.- Books, Monographs and General Reviews of Data.- Exercises: Further Hints and Selected Solutions.