An Introduction to Gauge Theories and Modern Particle Physics, Vol. 1: Electroweak Interactions, the New Particles and the Parton Model (Cambridge ... Physics, Nuclear Physics, and Cosmology) - Elliot Leader, Revised Edition, Hardcover

• Release Date   4/26/1996
• ISBN-13   9780521464680 | 978-0-521-46468-0
• ISBN   0521464684 | 0-521-46468-4
• Format   Hardcover
• Author(s)   Elliot Leader
• This book is a comprehensive and unified treatment of modern theoretical and experimental particle physics aimed at beginning graduate students. The emphasis throughout is on presenting underlying physical principles in a simple and intuitive way. In 1983, researchers detected the existence of W and Z bosons and many new results have followed. This is the first graduate-level textbook to deal with the "second generation" of particle physics after 1983. 3pi]Features of this edition include: A detailed discussion of higher order electroweak effects. an expanded discussion of quark mixing. revised sections on charm and beauty and on jet physics. enlarged treatment of deep inelastic lepton-adron scattering. detailed treatment of QCD corrections to the simple parton model. and an introduction to the nonperturbative or confinement region of QCD.