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Zbl 1126.81002
Cottingham, W. Noel; Greenwood, Derek A.
An introduction to the standard model of particle physics. 2nd ed. (English)
[B] Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xix, 272~p. \sterling~30.00; \$~65.00 (2007). ISBN 978-0-521-85249-4/hbk

The second edition of this textbook summarizes in less than 300 pages the accumulation of theoretical and experimental facts in the Standard Model of Elementary Particles. The expectancy is that the reader masters the non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics and possesses elementary knowledge of Particle Physics. The main task of the book is to present in a self-contained manner theoretical concepts from electromagnetic and weak interaction of leptons and quarks to the strong interaction of quarks. In the first part of the book, the mathematical foundations are exposed: matrix algebra, Lorentz transformation, symmetry groups, Lagrange formalism, Dirac equation. The field quantization is then introduced and how actually simple Quantum Field calculations are performed is illustrated and the renormalization is qualitatively explained. Symmetry breaking and Miggs-mechanism, massive gauge fields, electroweak theory, the Kobayashi-Masakawa-Matrix and the CP-violation, quantum chromodynamics and Neutrino masses and mixing, anomalies, are disussed in the rest of the book. In the previous edition it was assumed that neutrinos are massless, whereas in the present edition the considerations are extended to non-vanishing neutrino masses. An account of the advances in the theory of strong interactions and neutrino physics is another novelty compared to the first edition. A noticeable feature of the text is that it stays steadily compact and avoids introducing too many details. There are many derivations of the formulas, calculation of processes and illustrative problems at the end of each chapter.
[Serban Misicu (Bucureşti)]

MSC 2000:: *81-01 Textbooks (quantum theory)
81V22 Unified theories of elementary partcles
81T13 Gauge theories
81T15 Perturbative methods of renormalization
81T50 Anomalies in field theory
81V05 Strong interaction
81V10 Electromagnetic interaction
81V15 Weak interaction
70S05 Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism
70S10 Symmetries and conservation laws
70S15 Yang-Mills and other gauge theories

Keywords: standard model; renormalisation; symmetry breaking; neutrino oscillations; anomalies

Citations: Zbl 0965.81136

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