Advanced Particle Physics Volume 1

Carefully constructed and written at a level accessible to graduate students, this book provides thorough and detailed coverage of forces, supersummetry, supergravity, particles, fields, and quantum electrodynamics. The author has based the book on advanced graduate courses and includes all the necessary particle physics, including mathematical techniques and derivation to allow students to start serious research. The complete and self contained design of the work makes it an excellent resource or handbook for those working in the area. It includes an examination of the first successfully operating quantum field theory, quantum electrodynamics.

Mathematical Prelude. Relativistic Invariance. Three-Dimensional World. The Four-Dimensional Minkowski Space. Lagrangian Formulation of Field Theory. Discrete Symmetry Operations. Birds's-Eye View on Microworld. Fundamental Interactions. Atoms — Nuclei — Nucleons. From Muon to Gluon. Hadron Families. Quark "Atoms" . Passing Glance on Theory of Electroweak Interaction. Fundamental Particles of Standard Model. Quantum Idyll — Free Fields . Scalar Field. Particles with Spin 1=2. Massive Vector Field. Electromagnetic Field. Quantum Electrodynamics. S-Matrix. Transmission of °-Radiation through Matter. Scattering of Electrons and Positrons. Radiative Corrections. Renormalization Theory. Appendix.