Marsh G.E. An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics for the Non-specialist

World Scientific, 2018. — 160 p. — ISBN10: 9813232587.This book takes the reader from some elementary ideas about groups to the essence of the Standard Model of particle physics along a relatively straight and intuitive path. Groups alone are first used to arrive at a classical analog of the Dirac equation. Using elementary quantum mechanics, this analog can be turned into the actual Dirac equation, which governs the motion of the quarks and leptons of the Standard Model. After an introduction to the gauge principle, the groups introduced in the beginning of the book are used to give an introduction to the Standard Model. The idea is to give an Olympian view of this evolution, one that is often missing when absorbing the detailed subject matter of the Standard Model as presented in an historical approach to the subject.Groups
A Semblance of the Dirac Equation From Groups
Minimalist Quantum Mechanics
Gauge Principle
Standard Model Beginnings 25
Particles of the Standard Model and QCD
Appendixes
The Particle Enigma
Spinor Representations of the Lorentz Group
The Schwinger Term
The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation