Advanced Particle Physics Two-Volume Set.

Advanced Particle Physics Two-Volume Set.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boyarkin, Oleg
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton : Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2011.
Subjects:
Particles (Nuclear physics)
particle physics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Volume I; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Designations; I: Mathematical Prelude; 1 Relativistic invariance; 2 Three-dimensional world; 2.1 Orthogonal transformation group O(3); 2.2 Tensor representations of the SO(3)-group; 3 The four-dimensional Minkowski space; 3.1 The homogeneous Lorenz group; 3.2 Classification of irreducible representations of the homogeneous Lorentz group; 3.3 Tensor representations of the limited homogeneous Lorentz group; 3.4 Spinor representations of the homogeneous Lorentz group.
  • 3.5 Poincare group and its representations4 Lagrangian formulation of field theory; 4.1 Principle of least action. Lagrange-Euler equations; 4.2 Noether theorem and dynamic invariants; 4.3 Energy-momentum tensor; 4.4 Tensor of angular momentum; 4.5 Electromagnetic current vector and electric charge; 4.6 Isotopic spin; 5 Discrete symmetry operations; 5.1 Spatial inversion; 5.2 Time inversion; 5.3 Charge conjugation; 5.4 G-parity; 5.5 CPT theorem; Problems; References; II: Birds's-Eye View on the Microworld; 6 Fundamental interactions; 6.1 Species of interactions.
  • 6.2 On the path to a unified field theory7 Atoms-Nuclei-Nucleons; 7.1 Atomism; 7.2 Rutherford model of the atom; 7.3 Structure of the atomic nucleus; 8 From muon to gluon; 9 Hadron families; 9.1 Yukawa hypothesis; 9.2 Isotopic multiplets; 9.3 Unitary multiplets; 10 Quark "atoms"; 10.1 Hypothesis of fundamental triplets; 10.2 X-ray photography of nucleons; 10.3 Parton model; 10.4 Quantum chromodynamics. The first acquaintance; 10.5 Heavy quarks and flavor symmetries; 11 Passing glance on the theory of electroweak interaction; 11.1 Spontaneous symmetry breaking.
  • 11.2 Glashow-Weinberg-Salam theory12 Fundamental particles of the Standard Model; 13 Technical equipment of particle physics; 13.1 Accelerators; 13.2 Detectors; 13.3 Neutrino Telescopes; Problems; References; III: Quantum Idyll-Free Fields; 14 Scalar field; 14.1 Klein-Gordon equation; 14.2 Quantization; 14.3 Production and destruction operators; 14.4 Wave-corpuscle dualism; 14.5 Commutation relations. Properties of commutator functions; 14.6 Microcausality; 14.7 Relativistically covariant scheme of the canonical quantization; 14.8 Green function of the scalar field; 14.9 Causal Green function.

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