Notes on Elementary Particle Physics (eBook)

H. Muirhead (Autor)

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2016 | 1. Auflage
262 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
9781483280325 (ISBN)

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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, particularly the tests of quantum electrodynamics and electromagnetic form factors. The final two chapters describe the invariance properties and problems in weak and strong interactions. This book is of value to graduate elementary particle physics teachers and students.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Notes on Elementary Particle Physics 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
PREFACE 10
CHAPTER 1. TERMINOLOGY 12
1.1. The Major Types of Particles 12
1.2. Coupling Strengths 14
1.3. Strange Particles 17
1.4. The Gell-Mann, Nishijima Scheme 17
1.5. Experimental Techniques 22
CHAPTER 2. TRANSITION AMPLITUDES AND PROBABILITIES 28
2.1. Notation 28
2.2. The Transition Amplitude 29
2.3. Transition Probabilities 32
2.4. Cross-sections for Two-body Final States 38
2.5. Applications of the Phase Space Integral 40
CHAPTER 3. RELATTVISTIC WAVE EQUATIONS AND FIELDS 46
3.1. The Klein-Gordon Equation 46
3.2. Particles with Spin 47
3.3. Transformations 48
3.4. The Pauli–Lubanski Vector 52
3.5. Wave Equations for Particles of Non-zero Spin 57
3.6. Relativistic Fields 74
CHAPTER 4. THE INTERACTION AMPLITUDE 78
4.1. The Perturbation Approach 78
4.2. Invariance Arguments 83
4.3. Propagators 84
4.4. Feynman Rules 91
CHAPTER 5. ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS 94
5.1. The Coulomb Scattering of Two Electrons 94
5.2. Tests of Quantum Electrodynamics 97
5.3. Electromagnetic Form Factors 99
CHAPTER 6. WEAK INTERACTIONS 109
6.1. The Operations P, C, T 109
6.2. Invariance Properties in Weak Interactions 113
6.3. Problems in Weak Interactions 126
CHAPTER 7. STRONG INTERACTIONS 132
7.1. Quantum Numbers of the Resonances 132
7.2. Internal Quantum Numbers 149
7.3. Interactions at High Energies 171
7.4. Regge Poles 176
7.5. Finite Energy Sum Rules 191
7.6. Interference and/or Duality 194
7.7. The Veneziano Model 198
APPENDICES 208
A.l. Particle Data 208
A.2. Units 230
A.3. Some Points from Quantum Mechanics 232
A.4. d-functions 242
A. 5. Reference Frames and the Lorentz Transformation 244
A.6. .-Matrices 249
A.7. Symmetry Properties for the Decay x .p. 250
REFERENCES 254
INDEX 258

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.1.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-13: 9781483280325 / 9781483280325