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Muirhead Notes on Elementary Particle Physics
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4832-8032-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
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E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Web PDF
ISBN: 978-1-4832-8032-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Notes of Elementary Particle Physics is a seven-chapter text that conveys the ideas on the state of elementary particle physics. This book emerged from an introductory course of 30 lectures on the subject given to first-year graduate students at the University of Liverpool. The opening chapter deals with pertinent terminologies in elementary particle physics. The succeeding three chapters cover the concepts of transition amplitudes, probabilities, relativistic wave equations and fields, and the interaction amplitude. The discussion then shifts to tests of electromagnetic interactions, particularly the tests of quantum electrodynamics and electromagnetic form factors. The final two chapters describe the invariance properties and problems in weak and strong interactions. This book is of value to graduate elementary particle physics teachers and students.
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1;Front Cover;1
2;Notes on Elementary Particle Physics;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;PREFACE;10
6;CHAPTER 1. TERMINOLOGY;12
6.1;1.1. The Major Types of Particles;12
6.2;1.2. Coupling Strengths;14
6.3;1.3. Strange Particles;17
6.4;1.4. The Gell-Mann, Nishijima Scheme;17
6.5;1.5. Experimental Techniques;22
7;CHAPTER 2. TRANSITION AMPLITUDES AND PROBABILITIES;28
7.1;2.1. Notation;28
7.2;2.2. The Transition Amplitude;29
7.3;2.3. Transition Probabilities;32
7.4;2.4. Cross-sections for Two-body Final States;38
7.5;2.5. Applications of the Phase Space Integral;40
8;CHAPTER 3. RELATTVISTIC WAVE EQUATIONS AND FIELDS;46
8.1;3.1. The Klein-Gordon Equation;46
8.2;3.2. Particles with Spin;47
8.3;3.3. Transformations;48
8.4;3.4. The Pauli–Lubanski Vector;52
8.5;3.5. Wave Equations for Particles of Non-zero Spin;57
8.6;3.6. Relativistic Fields;74
9;CHAPTER 4. THE INTERACTION AMPLITUDE;78
9.1;4.1. The Perturbation Approach;78
9.2;4.2. Invariance Arguments;83
9.3;4.3. Propagators;84
9.4;4.4. Feynman Rules;91
10;CHAPTER 5. ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS;94
10.1;5.1. The Coulomb Scattering of Two Electrons;94
10.2;5.2. Tests of Quantum Electrodynamics;97
10.3;5.3. Electromagnetic Form Factors;99
11;CHAPTER 6. WEAK INTERACTIONS;109
11.1;6.1. The Operations P, C, T;109
11.2;6.2. Invariance Properties in Weak Interactions;113
11.3;6.3. Problems in Weak Interactions;126
12;CHAPTER 7. STRONG INTERACTIONS;132
12.1;7.1. Quantum Numbers of the Resonances;132
12.2;7.2. Internal Quantum Numbers;149
12.3;7.3. Interactions at High Energies;171
12.4;7.4. Regge Poles;176
12.5;7.5. Finite Energy Sum Rules;191
12.6;7.6. Interference and/or Duality;194
12.7;7.7. The Veneziano Model;198
13;APPENDICES;208
13.1;A.l. Particle Data;208
13.2;A.2. Units;230
13.3;A.3. Some Points from Quantum Mechanics;232
13.4;A.4. d-functions;242
13.5;A. 5. Reference Frames and the Lorentz Transformation;244
13.6;A.6. .-Matrices;249
13.7;A.7. Symmetry Properties for the Decay x .p.;250
14;REFERENCES;254
15;INDEX;258
