Intended as an accessible and practical introduction to gauge theories, this volume discusses the main conceptual aspects, examines the practical calculations of physical quantities and offers comparisons of these quantitative predictions with experimental results. This second edition assumes even less knowledge of particle physics and is intended for all levels from undergraduate to research. Background is provided to the main experimental results which substantiate the quark/lepton/gauge theory viewpoint, and to the theoretical tools. In particular, a low-level introduction is given to quantum field theory, a conceptual framework which is fundamental to the modern description of waves and particles. The formal development of field theory is strictly limited, however, and it is shown how calculations can be performed using the simpler "wavefunction" approach of Feynman. The book is one of a series designed primarily to meet the needs of postgraduate students, who might otherwise be faced with the task of acquainting themselves with a research topic by reading an advanced research text.
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"... this new edition features several improvements onto what was already an excellent book... There is no doubt that, like its predecessor, it will be adopted as a textbook or a reference by many teachers." -- Physicalia
"A well-written and produced text, highly recommend for new postgraduates" -- Contemporary Physics --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"A well-written and produced text, highly recommend for new postgraduates" -- Contemporary Physics --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This review is from: Gauge Theories in Particle Physics, Second Edition (Graduate Student Series in Physics) (Hardcover)
This book is the best book I've seen on the subject. The qualitative description of qunatum field theory in particular are amazingly lucid for the subject. The only possible flaw in the book is that the problems at the end of each chapter are both few in number and for the most part do not challenge the student at all; for the most part they are just rote calculations.
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The traditional goal of particle physics, in response to Newton's challenge, has been to identify what appear to be structureless units of matter, and to understand the nature of the forces acting between them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hidden gauge invariance, relativistic superconductor, longitudinal polarisation states, neglecting all masses, hadronic isospin, unobserved hadrons, gauge quanta, local phase invariance, weak interaction phenomenology, renormalisable theory, polarisation sum, free particle wave equation, field theory formalism, vacuum screening, charge quantisation, deep inelastic neutrino scattering, flux filament, lepton tensor, parton process, quark parton model, interquark force, massive vector field, gauge boson propagator, neutral current couplings, macroscopic wavefunction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The traditional goal of particle physics, in response to Newton's challenge, has been to identify what appear to be structureless units of matter, and to understand the nature of the forces acting between them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hidden gauge invariance, relativistic superconductor, longitudinal polarisation states, neglecting all masses, hadronic isospin, unobserved hadrons, gauge quanta, local phase invariance, weak interaction phenomenology, renormalisable theory, polarisation sum, free particle wave equation, field theory formalism, vacuum screening, charge quantisation, deep inelastic neutrino scattering, flux filament, lepton tensor, parton process, quark parton model, interquark force, massive vector field, gauge boson propagator, neutral current couplings, macroscopic wavefunction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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