Lecture Notes in Physics - Vol. 55
LECTURES IN PARTICLE PHYSICS
by Dan Green (Fermilab)
The aim of this book on particle physics is to present the theory in a simple way. The style and organization of the material is unique in that intuition is employed, not formal theory or the Monte Carlo method. This volume attempts to be more physical and less abstract than other texts without degenerating into a presentation of data without interpretation.
This book is based on four courses of lectures conducted at Fermilab. It should prove very useful to advanced undergraduates and graduate students.
Contents:
- Particle Properties on an Abacus: Hadron
Masses
- Hadron Decays
- Beauty for Beginners: Introduction to Electroweak Decays
- Nonleptonic Decays
- Phenomenology for CP Violation
- CP Violation and Mixing
- "Box" Diagrams and Standard Model Calculations
- Collider Physics on an Abacus: Point Particle Constituents and Their Couplings
- Scattering of Point Particles
- Hadron-Hadron Production of Particles
- Hadron-Hadron Scattering in the Pointlike Domain
- Hadron Decay Kinematics and Point Particle Fragmentation
- Gravity for the Masses: The Equivalence Principle
- Linearized Gravitation
- Schuartzchild Solution
- Other Solutions
- Kerr Solution
- Radiation
- Neutron Stars
- Hawking Evaporation
Readership: Graduate students in high energy physics.
"Lectures in Particle Physics has a number of positive features that would make it most suitable as a supplemental text in an introductory (or even advanced) course in particle physics ... the development of the constituent quark model in the first section is clear and concise ... The section on B physics includes an excellent summary of both the origin and present knowledge of the CKM (Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa) matrix."
Alexander Firestone
Physics Today, 1995 |
| 484pp |
Pub. date: Jul 1994 |
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