Beschreibung:
Most of the progress made in particle physics during the past 20 years has led to the formulation of the "Standard Model" of elementary particles and its quantitative experimental test. This book studies this progress but includes the necessary background material to modern particle physics.
Introduction; particle interactions; space-time symmetries; internal symmetries; unitary groups and SU(3); SU(6) and quark model; colour, gauge principle and quantum chromodynamics; heavy flavours; neutrino; weak interactions; properties of weak hadronic currents and chiral symmetry; electroweak unification; deep inelastic scattering; particle mixing and CP violation; weak decays of heavy flavours; cosmology and particle physics; quantum field theory; renormalization group and running coupling constant.