Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notational conventions
- Note added in proof: the discovery of the top quark (?)
- Note added in proof: the demise of the SSC
- 18 Determination of the Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix
- 19 Mixing and CP violation
- 20 Regularization, renormalization and introduction to the renormalization group
- 21 Gauge theories, QCD and the renormalization group
- 22 Applications of the QCD renormalization group
- 23 The parton model in QCD
- 24 Large pT phenomena and jets in hadronic reactions
- 25 Jets and hadrons in e+e− physics
- 26 Low pT or ‘soft’ hadronic physics
- 27 Some non-perturbative aspects of gauge theories
- 28 Beyond the standard model
- Appendix 1 Elements of field theory
- Appendix 2 Feynman rules for QED, QCD and the SM
- Appendix 3 Conserved vector currents and their charges
- Appendix 4 Operator form of Feynman amplitudes and effective Hamiltonians
- Appendix 5 S-matrix, T-matrix and Feynman amplitude
- Appendix 6 Consequences of CPT invariance for matrix elements
- Appendix 7 Formulae for the basic partonic 2 → 2 processes
- Appendix 8 Euclidean space conventions
- References
- Analytic subject index for vols. 1 and 2
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notational conventions
- Note added in proof: the discovery of the top quark (?)
- Note added in proof: the demise of the SSC
- 18 Determination of the Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix
- 19 Mixing and CP violation
- 20 Regularization, renormalization and introduction to the renormalization group
- 21 Gauge theories, QCD and the renormalization group
- 22 Applications of the QCD renormalization group
- 23 The parton model in QCD
- 24 Large pT phenomena and jets in hadronic reactions
- 25 Jets and hadrons in e+e− physics
- 26 Low pT or ‘soft’ hadronic physics
- 27 Some non-perturbative aspects of gauge theories
- 28 Beyond the standard model
- Appendix 1 Elements of field theory
- Appendix 2 Feynman rules for QED, QCD and the SM
- Appendix 3 Conserved vector currents and their charges
- Appendix 4 Operator form of Feynman amplitudes and effective Hamiltonians
- Appendix 5 S-matrix, T-matrix and Feynman amplitude
- Appendix 6 Consequences of CPT invariance for matrix elements
- Appendix 7 Formulae for the basic partonic 2 → 2 processes
- Appendix 8 Euclidean space conventions
- References
- Analytic subject index for vols. 1 and 2
Summary
For a book of its genre, our previous book, An introduction to gauge theories and the “new physics” (1982) was a great success. It was not, alas, sold in airport lounges, but it did run to two additional printings (1983, 1985), and to extensively revised editions in Russian (1990), and in Polish (1991). More importantly, it seemed to achieve the principal goal which we had set ourselves, namely, to present a pedagogical account of modern particle physics with a balance of theory and experiment, which would be intelligible and stimulating for both theoretical and experimental graduate students. We did not try to write a profound book on field theory, nor a treatise on sophisticated experimental techniques. But we did wish to stress the deep, intimate and fruitful interaction between theoretical ideas and experimental results. Indeed, for us, it is just this aspect of physics which makes it seem so much more exciting than say pure mathematics. Our greatest pleasure came from the favourable reaction of students who were working through the book and from those reviewers who caught what we hoped was its essential flavour—‘the writing creates the feeling of an active progression of ideas arising from the repeated interaction of theoretical prejudice with experimental observation’, ‘unlike most textbooks, it is highly readable, and makes everything appear simple and obvious’. Well, the last comment is surely an exaggeration but that was our aim.
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- An Introduction to Gauge Theories and Modern Particle Physics , pp. xix - xxiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996