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The third edition of this successful textbook has been redesigned to reflect the progress of the field in the last decade, including the latest studies of the Higgs boson, quark–gluon plasma, progress in flavour and neutrino physics and the discovery of gravitational waves. It provides undergraduate students with complete coverage of the basic elements of the Standard Model of particle physics, assuming only introductory courses in nuclear physics, special relativity and quantum mechanics. Examples of fundamental experiments are highlighted before…
By showing experiments before discussing the theories that they inspired, the author emphasizes the physics, allowing students to understand the material without wading through complex mathematics
The stories of crucial discoveries are covered briefly, helping students to understand and appreciate the subject's development
260 numerical problems are presented to help students connect theory with practice with solutions for some of them; full solutions are available to instructors
This textbook is available as a Gold Open Access publication via the Cambridge website
Alessandro Bettini,Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Alessandro Bettini is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Padua, Italy and a Research Associate of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). He has served the INFN as Director of the Padova section, Vice-president and Director of the Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS), the IUPAP as Chair of the Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics and Gravitation International Committee and the Spanish Government as Director of the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC). He is the author more than of 200 scientific publications, eight university textbooks and two books for the general public. He is a Fellow of the European Physical Society, 'Socio Benemerito' of the Italian Physical Society (SIF) and a member of the Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lattere e Arti.