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The Standard Model and Beyond (Hardcover)
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The Standard Model and Beyond (Hardcover)
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This book contains a systematic and pedagogical exposition of
recent developments in particle physics and cosmology. It starts
with two introductory chapters on group theory and the Dirac
theory. Then it proceeds with the formulation of the Standard Model
(SM) of Particle Physics, particle content and symmetries, fully
exploiting the material of the first two chapters. It discusses the
concept of gauge symmetries and emphasizes their role in particle
physics. It then analyses the Higgs mechanism and the spontaneous
symmetry breaking (SSB). It explains how the particles (gauge
bosons and fermions) after the SSB acquire a mass and get admixed.
The various forms of charged currents are discussed in detail as
well as how the parameters of the SM, which cannot be determined by
the theory, are fixed by experiment, including the recent LHC data
and the Higgs discovery. Quantum chromodynamics is discussed and
various low energy approximations to it are presented. The Feynman
diagrams are introduced and applied, at the level of first year
graduate students. Examples are the evaluation of the decay widths
of the gauge bosons and some cross sections for interesting
processes such as Rutherford scattering, electron-proton scattering
(elementary proton or described by a form factor, and inelastic
scattering) and Compton scattering. After that the classic topics
like the role of C, P, CP symmetries and the experimental methods
needed to verify their conservation or violation are discussed in
some detail. Topics beyond the standard model, like supersymmetry
for pedestrians and grand unification, are discussed. To this end
neutrino oscillations, dark matter and baryon asymmetry are also
briefly discussed at the first year graduate level. Finally, the
book contains an exhibition of recent developments in cosmology,
especially from the elementary particle point of view.
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