9780470032930 - Particle Physics di Martin, Brian Robert; Shaw, Graham (3 risultati)

Condizione: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1000grams, ISBN:9780470032930.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Hardcover, third edition, xviii + 442pp + 4 pages of glossy plates, NOT ex-library. Printed and bound in the UK. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show gentle indentations. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: 1 Some basic concepts 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Antiparticles 1.3 Interactions and Feynman diagrams 1.4 Particle exchange 1.5 Units and dimensions; Problems / 2 Leptons and the weak interaction 2.1 Lepton multiplets and lepton numbers 2.2 Leptonic weak interactions 2.3 Neutrino masses and neutrino mixing; Problems / 3 Quarks and hadrons 3.1 Quarks 3.2 General properties of hadrons 3.3 Pions and nucleons 3.4 Strange particles, charm and bottom 3.5 Short-lived hadrons 3.6 Allowed and exotic quantum numbers; Problems / 4 Experimental methods 4.1 Overview 4.2 Accelerators and beams 4.3 Particle interactions with matter 4.4 Particle detectors 4.5 Detector systems and accelerator experiments 4.6 Non-accelerator experiments; Problems / 5 Space-time symmetries 5.1 Translational invariance 5.2 Rotational invariance 5.3 Parity 5.4 Charge conjugation 5.5 Positronium 5.6 Time reversal; Problems / 6 The quark model 6.1 Isospin symmetry 6.2 The lightest hadrons 6.3 The L = 0 heavy quark states 6.4 Colour 6.5 Charmonium and bottomonium; Problems / 7 QCD, jets and gluons 7.1 Quantum chromodynamics 7.2 Electron-positron annihilation; Problems / 8 Quarks and partons 8.1 Elastic electron scattering: the size of the proton 8.2 Inelastic electron and muon scattering 8.3 Inelastic neutrino scattering 8.4 Other processes 8.5 Current and constituent quarks; Problems / 9 Weak interactions: quarks and leptons 9.1 Charged current reactions 9.2 The third generation; Problems / 10 Weak interactions: electroweak unification 10.1 Neutral currents and the unified theory 10.2 Gauge invariance and the Higgs boson; Problems / 11 Discrete symmetries: C, P, CP and CPT 11.1 P violation, C violation and CP conservation 11.2 CP violation and particle-antiparticle mixing 11.3 CP violation in the standard model; Problems / 12 Beyond the standard model 12.1 Grand unification 12.1.1 Quark and lepton charges 12.1.2 The weak mixing angle 12.1.3 Proton decay 12.2 Supersymmetry 12.2.1 The search for supersymmetry 12.3 Strings and things 12.4 Particle physics and cosmology 12.4.1 Dark matter 12.4.2 Matter-antimatter asymmetry 12.4.3 CP violation and electric dipole moments 12.4.4 Axions and the strong CP problem 12.5 Dirac or Majorana neutrinos? 12.5.1 Double beta decay; Problems / A Relativistic kinematics A.1 The Lorentz transformation for energy and momentum A.2 The invariant mass A.2.1 Beam energies and thresholds A.2.2 Masses of unstable particles A.3 Transformation of the scattering angle; Problems / B Amplitudes and cross-sections B.1 Rates and cross-sections B.2 The total cross-section B.3 Differential cross-sections B.4 The scattering amplitude B.5 The Breit-Wigner formula B.5.1 Decay distributions B.5.2 Resonant cross-sections; Problems B; C The isospin formalism C.1 Isospin operators C.2 Isospin states C.3 Isospin multiplets C.3.1 Hadron states C.4 Branching ratios C.5 Spin states; Problems; D Gauge theories D.1 Electromagnetic interactions D.2 Gauge transformations D.3 Gauge invariance and the photon mass D.4 The gauge principle D.5 The Higgs mechanism D.5.1 Charge and current densities D.5.2 Spin-0 bosons D.5.3 Spontaneous symmetry breaking D.6 Quantum chromodynamics D.7 Electroweak interactions D.7.1 Weak isospin D.7.2 Gauge invariance and charged currents D.7.3 The unification condition D.7.4 Spin structure and parity violation; Problems; E Answers to selected questions; References; Index.

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