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This review is from: Quarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics (Paperback)
If you are a grad student in high energy/nuclear/heavy ion physics, experimental or theoretical, do yourself a favour and buy this book. It starts really from the begining (scalar fields, spinors, dirac equation, propagators) and slowly but steadily reaches the point of gauge field theory, QCD, partons, electroweak interactions , spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Weinberg-Salam model. Dont expect to find anything rigorous about renormalization. Chapter 7 has some calculations about running coupling constants etc. but most of it is intuitive (describing rather than proving) in order to give you a glimpse about these matters and serve as a tool for later chapters. Although I knew the basics of Quantum Field Theory before I read this book, it helped me understand topics like deep inelastic scattering, parton distribution functions, scaling, weak interactions,spontaneous symmetry breaking. Caution: It is not a Quantum Field Theory book, it is a particle physics book. If you are looking for gribov anomalies,ward-takahashi identities, and renormalization of the weinberg-salam model and stuff like that then this is not the place to find it. The book is about particles and their interactions. Its purpose is to prepare the serious student for more rigorous Quantum Field Theory books and give him/her the big picture of the standard model (the forest) rather than the little details of field theory (the tree). I strongly recommend it to any student in the field. The language is clear and the concepts are easy to follow. Its a down to earth approach trying to explain things in a clear cut manner rather than confusing the student with "big words" and terminology. A nice suplement to this book is the book by Chris Quigg (...huge number of references). In short, this book is worth its money ! Buy it !
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This review is from: Quarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics (Paperback)
This is a very good treatment of particle physics. Unfortunately, its one of those textbooks where exercises are dispersed throughout the text and which form an integral part of the pedagogy. In other words, the reader must work through the problems as they appear in the book as subsequent material is based upon it; not to do the exercies will result in an incomplete and fragmented exposure to the material. Some might like that approach but I personally find it irritating and slows down the reading. As I mentioned its a very well written expose of particle physics but it could have been great if its format had been more traditional.
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Best book for preparing for a test in particle physics,
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This review is from: Quarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics (Paperback)
I love this book, mostly because this book told me very well about how to do every kind of particle physics problems. Before you read it, you needn't have much background in Quantum Field Theory (while it should be quite good to read this book before studying QFT), and you can get almost all ideas of High Energy Physics in an aspect of phenomenology. If you wanna prepare for a professional particle physics test (such as a PhD Qualification test), for sure this book is the best one to read --- you can pass any kind of these tests if you concentrate more than 2 days on this book. And even you are not worrying about any test, this book is very good for a beginner to know particle physics quantitatively.
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Present-day particle physics research represents man's most ambitious and most organized effort to answer this question. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
parton model result, quark structure functions, outgoing quark, invariant amplitude, color quantum number, bilinear covariants, gluon emission, vertex factor, isoscalar target, exchanged photon, proton form factors, massive gauge bosons, extreme relativistic limit, valence quarks, weak bosons, quark states, photon propagator, virtual photon, helicity conservation, electron propagator, weak isospin, scaling violations, quark content, isospin doublet, local gauge invariance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Preview of Particle Physics, Stanford Linear Accelerator, Electroweak Interference, Big Bang, Electrodynamics of Spinless Particles, The Charge of Nuclear Interactions, Can the Proton Decay, Inelastic Electron Scattering, Quark-Antiquark States, Terms of the Invariant Amplitude, Three-Quark States New!
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Present-day particle physics research represents man's most ambitious and most organized effort to answer this question. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
parton model result, quark structure functions, outgoing quark, invariant amplitude, color quantum number, bilinear covariants, gluon emission, vertex factor, isoscalar target, exchanged photon, proton form factors, massive gauge bosons, extreme relativistic limit, valence quarks, weak bosons, quark states, photon propagator, virtual photon, helicity conservation, electron propagator, weak isospin, scaling violations, quark content, isospin doublet, local gauge invariance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Preview of Particle Physics, Stanford Linear Accelerator, Electroweak Interference, Big Bang, Electrodynamics of Spinless Particles, The Charge of Nuclear Interactions, Can the Proton Decay, Inelastic Electron Scattering, Quark-Antiquark States, Terms of the Invariant Amplitude, Three-Quark States New!
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- Weak Interactions, (Graduate student series in physics) by David Bailin in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Gauge Theories of Weak Interactions (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics) by J. C. Taylor in Back Matter
- Quantum Mechanics (Pure & Applied Physics) by L. I. Schiff in Back Matter
- Fundamentals of Physics by David Halliday in Back Matter
- Quantum Mechanics by Franz Mandl on page 71
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- Handbook of Nuclear Chemistry. FIVE VOLUME SET by Attila Vértes on page 132, and Back Matter
- Elementary Particles and Their Interactions: Concepts and Phenomena by Quang Ho-Kim on page 142, and page 376
- Fields, Symmetries, and Quarks by Ulrich Mosel in Back Matter
- Princeton Problems in Physics with Solutions by Nathan Newbury in Back Matter
- Field Theory in Particle Physics, Volume 1 (North-Holland Personal Library) by B. de Wit in Back Matter
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