Fayyazuddin and Riazuddin. A Modern Introduction to Particle Physics

2nd Edition. — World Scientific, 2000. — 737 p.
Particle physics has been one of the frontiers of science since J. J. Thompson’s discovery of the electron about one hundred years ago. Since then physicists have been concerned with (i) attempts to discover the ultimate constituents of matter, (ii) the fundamental forces through which the fundamental constituents interact, and (iii) seeking a unification of the fundamental forces. At the present level of experimental resolution, the smallest units of matter appear to be leptons and quarks, which are spin 1/2 fermions. Hadrons (particles which feel the strong force) are composed of quarks.Scattering and Particle Interaction
Space-Time Symmetries
Internal Symmetries
Unitary Groups and SU(3)
SU(6) and Quark Model
Color. Gauge Principle and Quantum Chromodynamics
Heavy Flavors