Kane G. Modern Elementary Particle Physics...2ed 2017 torrent

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This book is written for students and scientists wanting to learn about the Standard Model of particle physics. Only an introductory course knowledge about quantum theory is needed. The text provides a pedagogical description of the theory, and incorporates the recent Higgs boson and top quark discoveries. With its clear and engaging style, this new edition retains its essential simplicity. Long and detailed calculations are replaced by simple approximate ones. It includes introductions to accelerators, colliders, and detectors, and several main experimental tests of the Standard Model are explained.
Descriptions of some well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model prepare the reader for new developments. It emphasizes the concepts of gauge theories and Higgs physics, electroweak unification and symmetry breaking, and how force strengths vary with energy, providing a solid foundation for those working in the field, and for those who simply want to learn about the Standard Model.
Introduction
Relativistic Notation, Lagrangians, and Interactions
Gauge Invariance
Non-Abelian Gauge Theories
Dirac Notation for Spin
The Standard Model Lagrangian
The Electroweak Theory and Quantum Chromodynamics
Masses and the Higgs Mechanism
Cross Sections, Decay Widths, and Lifetimes; W and Z Decays
Production and Properties of W and Z0
Measurement of Electroweak and QCD Parameters; the Muon Lifetime
Accelerators -- Present and Future
Experiments and Detectors
Low Energy and Non-Accelerator Experiments
Observation of the Higgs Boson at the CERN LHC; is it the Higgs Boson?
Colliders and Tests of the Standard Model; Particles are Point-Like
Quarks and Gluons, Confinement and Jets
Hadrons, Heavy Quarks, and Strong Isospin Invariance
Coupling Strengths Depend on Momentum Transfer and on Virtual Particles
Quark (and Lepton) Mixing Angles
CP Violation
Overview of Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Grand Unification
Neutrino Masses
Dark Matter 1
Supersymmetry
Appendixes
Angular Momentum and Spin and SU(2)
Some Group Theory
Some Relativistic Kinematics
The Point-Like Cross Section
When Are Our Approximations Not Valid?
Lagrangians and Symmetries; the Euler--Lagrange Equations and Maxwell's Equations