Concepts of Particle Physics, Volume 2The second volume of this authoritative work traces the material outlined in the first, but in far greater detail and with a much higher degree of sophistication. The authors begin with the theory of the electromagnetic interaction, and then consider hadronic structure, exploring the accuracy of the quark model by examining the excited states of baryons and mesons. They introduce the color variable as a prelude to the development of quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the strong interaction, and go on to discuss the electroweak interaction--the broken symmetry of which they explain by the Higgs mechanism--and conclude with a consideration of grand unification theories. |
Contents
III HADRONIC SPECTROSCOPY | 275 |
IV QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS | 339 |
V DEEP INELASTIC LEPTONHADRON SCATTERING | 421 |
VI THE ELECTROWEAK INTERACTION | 465 |
Appendix II Bose fields | 545 |
Appendix III The Dirac field | 559 |
Appendix IV Causality and its consequences | 577 |
Appendix V Vacuum polarization | 587 |
Appendix VI The magnetic susceptibility of a massless vector field | 593 |
Appendix VII Solutions of Diracs equation in a spherical enclosure | 597 |
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Concepts of Particle Physics, Volume 2 Kurt Gottfried,Victor Frederick Weisskopf Limited preview - 1984 |
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4-momentum 4-vector analogue angular momentum antiparticles atoms baryon bosons charge charge-changing collisions color commutation rules conservation Coulomb coupling constant cross section d³r decay deep inelastic defined density described diagram Dirac equation Dirac field distribution eigenvalues electromagnetic field electron electroweak energy expression factor fermion Feynman Feynman diagram flavor G-parity gauge field gauge invariance given gluons graph hadrons Hamiltonian helicity Hence Hermitian inelastic scattering leptons magnetic mass massless matrix mesons momenta momentum transfer multiplet muon neutrino nucleon observed octet operator pair parity particles photon positronium potential quantum electrodynamics quantum numbers quarks radiative corrections radius resonance rotation scalar scattering amplitude shown in Fig sin² singlet spatial spin spinors structure functions symmetry theory vacuum polarization vector wave function weak interaction weak isospin zero