Modern Elementary Particle Physics: Quarks, Leptons, And Their InteractionsRevised and updated from the 1987 version. Rather than giving a historical treatment, the author explains the modern standard model and the gauge theory of the interactions of quarks and leptons via exchange of photons, W and Z bosons, and gluons. The treatment avoids technical details, but fully explains the basic physics involved. Open questions and directions of future research are discussed and problem sets are included. |
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Survey | 1 |
The Electroweak Theory | 7 |
Relativistic Notation Lagrangians | 15 |
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