Notes on elementary particle physics /
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...
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Pergamon Press,
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Publisher Address: | Oxford ; New York : |
Publication Dates: | [1971] |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Edition: | First edition. |
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080165509 |
Summary: |
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, partic |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (x, 252 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-245). |
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9781483280325 1483280322 |
Index Number: | QC721 |
CLC: | O572.2 |
Contents: |
Front Cover; Notes on Elementary Particle Physics; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1. TERMINOLOGY; 1.1. The Major Types of Particles; 1.2. Coupling Strengths; 1.3. Strange Particles; 1.4. The Gell-Mann, Nishijima Scheme; 1.5. Experimental Techniques; CHAPTER 2. TRANSITION AMPLITUDES AND PROBABILITIES; 2.1. Notation; 2.2. The Transition Amplitude; 2.3. Transition Probabilities; 2.4. Cross-sections for Two-body Final States; 2.5. Applications of the Phase Space Integral; CHAPTER 3. RELATTVISTIC WAVE EQUATIONS AND FIELDS; 3.1. The Klein-Gordon Equation. 3.2. Particles with Spin3.3. Transformations; 3.4. The Pauli-Lubanski Vector; 3.5. Wave Equations for Particles of Non-zero Spin; 3.6. Relativistic Fields; CHAPTER 4. THE INTERACTION AMPLITUDE; 4.1. The Perturbation Approach; 4.2. Invariance Arguments; 4.3. Propagators; 4.4. Feynman Rules; CHAPTER 5. ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; 5.1. The Coulomb Scattering of Two Electrons; 5.2. Tests of Quantum Electrodynamics; 5.3. Electromagnetic Form Factors; CHAPTER 6. WEAK INTERACTIONS; 6.1. The Operations P, C, T; 6.2. Invariance Properties in Weak Interactions; 6.3. Problems in Weak Interactions. |