| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 272 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Previous edition: 1998. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-249) and index. |
| Contents |
The particle physicist's view of nature -- Lorentz transformations -- The Lagrangian formulation of mechanics -- Classical electromagnetism -- The Dirac equation and the Dirac field -- Free space solutions of the Dirac equation -- Electrodynamics -- Quantising fields : QED -- The weak interaction : low energy phenomenology -- Symmetry breaking in model theories -- Massive gauge fields -- The Weinberg-Salam electroweak theory for leptons -- Experimental tests of the Weinberg-Salam theory -- The electromagnetic and weak interactions of quarks -- The hadronic decays of the Z and W bosons -- The theory of strong interactions : quantum chromodynamics -- Quantum chromodynamics : calculations -- The Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix -- Neutrino masses and mixing -- Neutrino masses and mixing : experimental results -- Majorana neutrinos -- Anomalies -- Appendix A : an aide-mémoire on matrices -- Appendix B : the groups of the Standard Model -- Appendix C : annihilation and creation operators -- Appendix D : the parton model -- Appendix E : mass matrices and mixing. |
| Summary |
New edition introductory graduate textbook on the Standard Model of particle physics. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Particles (Nuclear physics)
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Particles (Nuclear physics) |
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Standard model (Nuclear physics)
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Standard model (Nuclear physics) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Greenwood, D. A.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cottingham, W.N. Introduction to the standard model of particle physics. 2nd ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007 0521852498 (DLC) 2007274540 (OCoLC)78989081 |
| ISBN |
0511273770 (electronic book) |
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9780511273773 (electronic book) |
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0511271360 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511271366 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511649061 (electronic book) |
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9780511649066 (electronic book) |
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9780511791406 (electronic book) |
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0511791402 (electronic book) |
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0511272987 |
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9780511272981 |
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1281836397 |
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9781281836397 |
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9780521852494 (cased) |
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0521852498 (cased) |
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