Leader E., Predazzi E. An introduction to gauge theories and modern particle physics. Vol. 2. CP-violation, QCD and hard processes

Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 431 p.
The revolution in elementary particle physics sparked by the unearthing of the
bizarre J/Psi particle in 1974 and followed by the discovery of the equally
mysterious T and T particles, led to a beautiful interweaving of theory and experiment
culminating in the Salam-Weinberg theory of electroweak interactions and the
quantum chromodynamic (QCD) theory of strong interactions. The
extraordinary prediction of the W and Z° bosons was fulfilled in 1983, and it is now
possible to produce Z° in millions. The emphasis today is on refined testing of
the detailed quantitative predictions of the theories, and, to match this, more
sophisticated calculations are demanded. This book presents, in two volumes,
a comprehensive and unified treatment of modem theoretical and experimental
particle physics at a level accessible to beginning research students. The
emphasis throughout is on presenting underlying physical principles in a simple and
intuitive way, and the more sophisticated methods demanded by present-day
research interests are introduced in a very gradual and gentle fashion.
Volume 1 covers electroweak interactions, the discovery and properties of the
'new' particles, the discovery of partons and the construction and predictions
of the simple parton model. Volume 2 deals at some length with CP violation,
but is mainly devoted to QCD and its application to 'hard' processes. A brief
coverage of soft hadronic physics and of non-perturbative QCD is included.
This work will provide a comprehensive reference and textbook for all graduate
students and researchers interested in modern particle physics.