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Gauge Theory of elementary particle physics

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The book presents the basics of the particle physics. I don't like the first of the book: field theory part is bad. But the rest of the book is very well written. It was very help for me to understand particle physics.

The book is written at a medium to advanced Physics level. Not an easy book for those who study the subject for the first time. Excellent for more advanced readers. Can also be used as e reference book.

This book is clearly outdated, therefore it should not be recommended to anybody who would pursue a career in Particle Physics. In dealing with renormalization, the authors did not even mention the phrase "Effective Field Theory". When introducing chiral symmetry of the strong interaction in Chapter 5, it is surprising that the authors did not even have a section about Chiral Perturbation Theory, while sticking to Current Algebra. There is nothing about Heavy Quark Symmetry in this book... And the treatment of mass and wavefunction renormalization in Section 2.3 is at best misleading...In short, this is one of the least books one should pick to learn either Quantum Field Theory or modern Particle Physics.

This book was "recommended" for an elective course in particle physics for PhD students at OSU. Having little to no experience in the field (besides simple modern physics topics like bubble chamber examples and time-dilated lifetimes of particles, etc.) I was hoping that I would get a better introduction. The book offers no such thing. It jumps right in with "Basics in Field Quantization" (which is hardly comprehensive) and then blows through everything in high gear. Considering that most students in physics haven't seen particle physics in their core sequence of coursework, I would not recommend this book for a course in particle physics unless the requisites for the course explicitly state that the student should have experience with field theory and an understanding of group theory. This is definitely a poor source for a student who is seeing the subject for the first time. For those who are more experienced in particle physics, I would expect that this book is a good reference, though I cannot say that for sure because I am not a member of such a group.

I also purchased the book of solutions to problems in this book. It sheds some light on the topic, but not much. Nonetheless, I won't sell this book because sometime down the road I might find it and its companion to be useful.

I have no issues with the contents: you should know QFT at the level of Weinberg Vol 1 and group theory at the level of Tung. If it were not for the construction of this book I would probably have rated it 5 stars. The cover and binding are what you would expect from a cheap five-dollar paperback. I wasn't reading it much longer than two ot three weeks before sections started to fall out. At the price its being sold, its poor quality is nothing but a crime.

since field theory is not setisfectory in any sense the book seems to present it not as ugly.