Nagashima Y. Beyond the Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physics

Wiley, Weinheim, 2014, 628 pages, ISBN: 3527411771A unique and comprehensive presentation on modern particle physics which stores the background knowledge on the big open questions beyond the standard model, as the existence of the Higgs–boson, or the nature of Dark Matter and Dark Energy.This book is the third of a series of textbooks on ‘‘Elementary Particle Physics’’. Part 1 of Volume I introduced the quantum field theory at the level that is necessary to understand phenomenology and to derive at least tree-level formulas for various reactions. Part 2 of Volume I described a way, logically as well as historically, to reach the SM of particle physics. Content of Volume II is the SM itself, an essential part of the electroweak interactions, and quantum chromodynamics (QCD). This book, entitled ‘‘Beyond the Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physics’’ should be considered as Volume III. The title speaks of its content by itself but the discussions are limited to topics that will become experimentally accessible in the near future. Each of the three volumes is organized to stand on their own depending on the readers’ interest and level, except occasional references to equations that were derived previously.