An engaging textbook designed for graduate students studying high energy physics. Its innovative order, presenting charge and neutral currents before the gauge field, allows the early introduction of Feynman diagram calculations, giving readers a head start in understanding the Model's predictions. With problems and exercises for consolidation.
This innovative textbook has been designed with approachability and engagement at its forefront, using language reminiscent of a live lecture and interspersing the main text with useful advice and expansions. Striking a balance between theoretical- and experimental-led approaches, this book immediately immerses the reader in charge and neutral currents, which are at the core of the Standard Model, before presenting the gauge field, allowing the introduction of Feynman diagram calculations at an early stage. This novel and effective approach gives readers a head start in understanding the Model's predictions, stoking interest early on. With in-chapter problem sessions which help readers to build their mastery of the subject, clarifying notes on equations, end of chapter exercises to consolidate learning, and marginal comments to guide readers through the complexities of the Standard Model, this is the ideal book for graduate students studying high energy physics.
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An innovative and approachable textbook with engaging language and a novel style that brings the Standard Model to life.
Preface;
1. What is this book about?;
2. Review of what the reader
already knows; Part I. Where the Model is Explained:
3. In medias res:
charged and neutral currents;
4. Gauge fields;
5. Hidden gauge freedom;
6.
Strong interactions; Part II. Where the Model is Put to Use:
7. The
electroweak theory at work;
8. Quantum Chromodynamics at work;
9. Finding
things out;
10. Things that go bump in the night; Appendices; Bibliography;
Index.
Marco Fabbrichesi is a researcher in theoretical high-energy physics at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trieste, Italy. His work spans areas including string theory, supersymmetry, and flavour physics. With a focus on making physics accessible, he has taught a wide variety of classes and has written two books for non-specialists. He studied at the University of Virginia and has been a fellow at the JINR, Dubna, the Neils Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, and the Theory Division at Cern, Geneva.
