Gauge Theory of elementary particle physics

Ta-Pei Cheng; Ling-Fong Li

ISBN 10: 0198519613 / ISBN 13: 9780198519614

Editore: Oxford University Press, 1988

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Softcover with blue cover and white and yellow text. Bottom corner of the front cover is creased diagonally. Corners bumped. Back cover is creased diagonally, extending from the bottom edge. Price sticker from a Cal Tech bookseller present over the ISBN barcode. Unobtrusive scratches and faint staining present all over both covers. Fore edge has a horizontal smudge near the top. Pages clean and free of marks. Binding strong. This listing was written by a real person, with the book in front of me for inspection. Please e-mail with questions or to see pictures. Codice articolo F-5967

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Titolo: Gauge Theory of elementary particle physics

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press

Data di pubblicazione: 1988

Legatura: Paperback

Condizione: Very good

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Riassunto:

This is a practical introduction to the principal ideas in gauge theory and their applications to elementary particle physics. It explains technique and methodology with simple exposition backed up by many illustrative examples. Derivations, some of well known results, are presented in sufficient detail to make the text accessible to readers entering the field for the first time. The book focuses on the strong interaction theory of quantum chromodynamics and the electroweak interaction theory of Glashow, Weinberg, and Salam, as well as the grand unification theory, exemplified by the simplest S.U.(5) model. Not intended as an exhaustive survey, the book nevertheless provides the general background necessary for a serious student who wishes to specialize in the field of elementary particle theory. Physicists with an interest in general aspects of gauge theory will also find the book highly useful.

Recensione:

The reader will find a concise review of diagrammatic pertubation theory, path-integral quantization, group theory, and renormalization theory. The more advanced concepts - gauge symmetry, chiral symmetry breaking, the Higgs mechanism, asymptotic freedom and the renormalization group - are treated in greater detail. The exposition of these subjects is judiciously combined with applications to the standard theory in a way that brings life to what otherwise might be dull formalism. [...] it will remain, for a long time to come, an excellent introduction to the comprehensive gauge theory of the electroweak and strong interactions. (David Goss, Physics Today)