This hight regarded text provides an up - to - date and comprehensive introduction to modern particle physics.
Extensively rewritten and updated, this fourth edition includes all the recent decelopments in elementary particle physics, as well as its connections with cosmology and astrophysics. As in previors editions, the balance between experiment and theory is continually emphasised. The stress is on the phenomenological approach and basic theoretical concepts rather than rigorous mathematical detail. Short descriptions are given of some of the key experiments in the field, and how they have influenced our thinking. Although most of the material is presented in the context of the Standard Model of quarks and leptons, the shortcomings of this model and new physics beyond its compass [such as supersymmetry, neutrino mass and oscillations, GUTs and superstrings] are also discussed. The text includes many preblems and a detailed and annotated further reading list.
1. Quarks and leptons
2. Interactions and fields
3. Invariance principles and conservation laws
4. Quarks in hadrons
5. Lepton and quark scattering
6. Quark interactions and QCD
7. Weak interactions
8. Electroweak interactions and the Standard Model
9. Physics beyond the Standard Model
10. Particle physics and cosmology
11. Experimental methods