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This introduction to standard model elementary particle physics is accessible to students with a background in intermediate electromagnetic theory and nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. It strives to balance experiment and theory and to present the subject in depth, but not exhaustively, starting from essential principles and following the dictum "as simple as possible but not simpler."
The text begins with the an overview of the standard model, a review of modern physics, and a smattering of history. The lengthy introduction is followed by special relativity and kinematics with applications of relativistic mechanics to accelerators. A chapter is devoted to the interactions of particles with matter and the principles of particle detection. Next, potential scattering calculations and the quantum theory of radiation are developed and used to jumpstart estimates of physical quantities in the relativistic regime. The successively more intricate gauge theories of electrodynamics, chromodynamics, and the electroweak model are then derived and applied. Along the way, Feynman rules which are the crux of the theories are developed in an intuitive way. The two component spinor description of fermions is emphasized and used in tree level calculations of seminal differential cross sections and transition rates including polarization.
Preface
lntroduction
Matter in a Nutshell
Special Relativity
Experiments
Quantum Physics
Electrodynamics of Bosons
Electrodynamics of Fermions
Gauge Theory and Chromodynamics
Origins of Weak Interaction Theory
Advanced Calculations
Hadrons
Beyond the Standard Model