Particle Physics in the LHC era

• Tác giả: Giles Barr, R Devenish, R Walczak, T Weidberg
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: acprof:oso/9780198748557.001.0001
• Thông tin xuất bản: Oxford University Press 2016
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (422 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 343471
• Chủ đề: 1. Astrophysics; 2. Atomic & molecular physics; 3. Cosmology & the universe; 4. Nuclear physics; 5. Particle & high-energy physics

Tóm tắt

This book gives a modern introduction to particle physics. The main mathematical tools required for the rest of the book are developed in
- Chapter 2. A quantitative introduction to accelerator physics is presented in
- Chapter 3.
- Chapter 4 covers detector physics, with an emphasis on fundamental physical principles.
- Chapter 5 covers the static quark model, with applications to light mesons and baryons as well as heavier states containing charm and beauty quarks.
- Chapter 6 introduces relativistic quantum mechanics and uses spinors to relate Lorentz invariance to the Dirac equation.
- Chapter 7 covers the basics of the electroweak theory based on broken SU(2) × U(1) symmetry.
- Chapter 8 reviews some of the key experiments that led to the development of the electroweak theory.
- Chapter 9 explains the importance of deep inelastic scattering data for providing direct evidence for the existence of quarks. It also gives a brief introduction to quantum chromodynamics (QCD).
- Chapter 10 considers flavour oscillations in the quark sector and then discusses the evidence for CP violation.
- Chapter 11 examines the theory of neutrino oscillations as well as the evidence for these oscillations.
- Chapter 12 gives an elementary introduction to the Higgs mechanism as well as a careful explanation of the experimental evidence for the existence of a Higgs boson.
- Chapter 13 looks at LHC physics and explains how searches for Beyond the Standard Model Physics are performed. It concludes with a discussion of the evidence for dark matter and dark energy.