An introduction to relativistic processes and the standard model of electroweak interactions / Carlo M. Becchi, Giovanni Ridolfi.
2014
QC174.45
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Title
An introduction to relativistic processes and the standard model of electroweak interactions / Carlo M. Becchi, Giovanni Ridolfi.
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
9783319061306 (electronic book)
3319061305 (electronic book)
9783319061290
3319061305 (electronic book)
9783319061290
Published
Milan : Springer, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 198 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-06130-6 doi
Call Number
QC174.45
Dewey Decimal Classification
530.143
Summary
These lectures are meant to be a reference and handbook for an introductory course in Theoretical Particle Physics, suitable for advanced undergraduates or beginning graduate students. Their purpose is to reconcile theoretical rigour and completeness with a careful analysis of more phenomenological aspects of the physics. They aim at filling the gap between quantum field theory textbooks and purely phenomenological treatments of fundamental interactions. The first part provides an introduction to scattering in relativistic quantum field theory. Thanks to an original approach to relativistic processes, the relevant computational techniques are derived cleanly and simply in the semi-classical approximation. The second part contains a detailed presentation of the gauge theory of electroweak interactions with particular focus to the processes of greatest phenomenological interest. The main novelties of the present second edition are a more complete discussion of relativistic scattering theory and an expansion of the study of the corrections to the semi-classical approximation, including important processes in LHC physics. The extension of the standard model to include neutrino masses and oscillations is also discussed, and updated with new results.
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Includes index.
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Unitext for physics.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Relativistic field theory
Scattering theory
Feynman
Spinor fields
Gauge symmetries
The standard model
Spontaneous breaking of the gauge symmetry
Breaking of accidental symmetries
Summary
Applications
Neutrino masses and mixing
A. Large-time evolution of the free field
B. Scattering from an external density
C. Dirac matrices
D. Violation of unitarity in the Fermi theory
References.
Relativistic field theory
Scattering theory
Feynman
Spinor fields
Gauge symmetries
The standard model
Spontaneous breaking of the gauge symmetry
Breaking of accidental symmetries
Summary
Applications
Neutrino masses and mixing
A. Large-time evolution of the free field
B. Scattering from an external density
C. Dirac matrices
D. Violation of unitarity in the Fermi theory
References.