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Conceptual Foundations of Modern Particle Physics (Hardcover)
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Conceptual Foundations of Modern Particle Physics (Hardcover)
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For scientific, technological and organizational reasons, the end
of World War II (in 1945) saw a rapid accceleration in the tempo of
discovery and understanding in nuclear physics, cosmic rays and
quantum field theory, which together triggered the birth of modern
particle physics. The first 15 years (1945-60) following the war's
end - the "Startup Period" in modern particle physics - witnessed a
series of major experimental and theoretical developments that
began to define the conceptual contours (non-Abelian internal
symmetries, Yang-Mills fields, renormalization group, chirality
invariance, baryon-lepton symmetry in weak interactions,
spontaneous symmetry breaking) of the quantum field theory of three
of the basic interactions in nature (electromagnetic, strong and
weak). But it took another 15 years (1960-75) - the "Heroic Period"
in modern particle physics - to unravel the physical content and
complete the mathematical formulation of the standard gauge theory
of the strong and electroweak interactions among the three
generations of quarks and leptons. The impressive accomplishments
during the "Heroic Period" were followed by what is called the
"period of consolidation and speculation (1975-1990)", which
includes the experimental consolidation of the standard model (SM)
through precision tests, theoretical consolidation of SM through
the search for more rigorous mathematical solutions to the
Yang-Mills-Higgs equations, and speculative theoretical excursions
"beyond SM". Within this historical-conceptual framework, the
author - himself a practicing particle theorist for the past 50
years - attempts to trace the highlights in the conceputal
evolution of modern particle physics from its early beginnings
until the present time. Apart from the first chapter - which
sketches a broad overview of the entire field - the remaining nine
chapters of the book offer detailed discussions of the major
concepts and principles that prevailed and were given wide currency
during each of the 15-year periods that comprise the history of
modern particle physics.
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