Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Notation
- 1 The particle physicist's view of Nature
- 2 Lorentz transformations
- 3 The Lagrangian formulation of mechanics
- 4 Classical electromagnetism
- 5 The Dirac equation and the Dirac field
- 6 Free space solutions of the Dirac equation
- 7 Electrodynamics
- 8 Quantising fields: QED
- 9 The weak interaction: low energy phenomenology
- 10 Symmetry breaking in model theories
- 11 Massive gauge fields
- 12 The Weinberg–Salam electroweak theory for leptons
- 13 Experimental tests of the Weinberg–Salam theory
- 14 The electromagnetic and weak interactions of quarks
- 15 The hadronic decays of the Z and W bosons
- 16 The theory of strong interactions: quantum chromodynamics
- 17 Quantum chromodynamics: calculations
- 18 The Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix
- 19 Neutrino masses and mixing
- 20 Neutrino masses and mixing: experimental results
- 21 Majorana neutrinos
- 22 Anomalies
- Epilogue
- Appendix A An aide-mémoire on matrices
- Appendix B The groups of the Standard Model
- Appendix C Annihilation and creation operators
- Appendix D The parton model
- Appendix E Mass matrices and mixing
- References
- Hints to selected problems
- Index
Preface to the second edition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Notation
- 1 The particle physicist's view of Nature
- 2 Lorentz transformations
- 3 The Lagrangian formulation of mechanics
- 4 Classical electromagnetism
- 5 The Dirac equation and the Dirac field
- 6 Free space solutions of the Dirac equation
- 7 Electrodynamics
- 8 Quantising fields: QED
- 9 The weak interaction: low energy phenomenology
- 10 Symmetry breaking in model theories
- 11 Massive gauge fields
- 12 The Weinberg–Salam electroweak theory for leptons
- 13 Experimental tests of the Weinberg–Salam theory
- 14 The electromagnetic and weak interactions of quarks
- 15 The hadronic decays of the Z and W bosons
- 16 The theory of strong interactions: quantum chromodynamics
- 17 Quantum chromodynamics: calculations
- 18 The Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix
- 19 Neutrino masses and mixing
- 20 Neutrino masses and mixing: experimental results
- 21 Majorana neutrinos
- 22 Anomalies
- Epilogue
- Appendix A An aide-mémoire on matrices
- Appendix B The groups of the Standard Model
- Appendix C Annihilation and creation operators
- Appendix D The parton model
- Appendix E Mass matrices and mixing
- References
- Hints to selected problems
- Index
Summary
In the eight years since the first edition, the Standard Model has not been seriously discredited as a description of particle physics in the energy region (<2 TeV) so far explored. The principal discovery in particle physics since the first edition is that neutrinos carry mass. In this new edition we have added chapters that extend the formalism of the Standard Model to include neutrino fields with mass, and we consider also the possibility that neutrinos are Majorana particles rather than Dirac particles.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is now under construction at CERN. It is expected that, at the energies that will become available for experiments at the LHC (∼20 TeV), the physics of the Higgs field will be elucidated, and we shall begin to see ‘physics beyond the Standard Model’. Data from the ‘B factories’ will continue to accumulate and give greater understanding of CP violation. We are confident that interest in the Standard Model will be maintained for some time into the future.
Cambridge University Press have again been most helpful. We thank Miss V. K. Johnson for secretarial assistance. We are grateful to Professor Dr J. G. Körner for his corrections to the first edition, and to Professor C. Davies for her helpful correspondence.
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- An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics , pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007