Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Notation
- 1 The particle physicist's view of Nature
- 2 Lorentz transformations
- 3 The Lagrangian formulation of mechanics
- 4 Classical electromagnetism
- 5 The Dirac equation and the Dirac field
- 6 Free space solutions of the Dirac equation
- 7 Electrodynamics
- 8 Quantising fields: QED
- 9 The weak interaction: low energy phenomenology
- 10 Symmetry breaking in model theories
- 11 Massive gauge fields
- 12 The Weinberg–Salam electroweak theory for leptons
- 13 Experimental tests of the Weinberg–Salam theory
- 14 The electromagnetic and weak interactions of quarks
- 15 The hadronic decays of the Z and W bosons
- 16 The theory of strong interactions: quantum chromodynamics
- 17 Quantum chromodynamics: calculations
- 18 The Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix
- 19 Neutrino masses and mixing
- 20 Neutrino masses and mixing: experimental results
- 21 Majorana neutrinos
- 22 Anomalies
- Epilogue
- 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
- References
- Hints to selected problems
- Index
Appendix A - An aide-mémoire on matrices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Notation
- 1 The particle physicist's view of Nature
- 2 Lorentz transformations
- 3 The Lagrangian formulation of mechanics
- 4 Classical electromagnetism
- 5 The Dirac equation and the Dirac field
- 6 Free space solutions of the Dirac equation
- 7 Electrodynamics
- 8 Quantising fields: QED
- 9 The weak interaction: low energy phenomenology
- 10 Symmetry breaking in model theories
- 11 Massive gauge fields
- 12 The Weinberg–Salam electroweak theory for leptons
- 13 Experimental tests of the Weinberg–Salam theory
- 14 The electromagnetic and weak interactions of quarks
- 15 The hadronic decays of the Z and W bosons
- 16 The theory of strong interactions: quantum chromodynamics
- 17 Quantum chromodynamics: calculations
- 18 The Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix
- 19 Neutrino masses and mixing
- 20 Neutrino masses and mixing: experimental results
- 21 Majorana neutrinos
- 22 Anomalies
- Epilogue
- 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
- References
- Hints to selected problems
- Index
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- An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics , pp. 222 - 226Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007