Bettini A. Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics

3rd ed. — Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 561 p. — ISBN 100944073X.The third edition of this successful textbook has been redesigned to reflect the progress of the field in the last decade, including the latest studies of the Higgs boson, quark–gluon plasma, progress in flavour and neutrino physics and the discovery of gravitational waves. It provides undergraduate students with complete coverage of the basic elements of the Standard Model of particle physics, assuming only introductory courses in nuclear physics, special relativity and quantum mechanics. Examples of fundamental experiments are highlighted before discussions of the theory, giving students an appreciation of how experiment and theory interplay in the development of physics. The author examines leptons, hadrons and quarks, before presenting the dynamics and the surprising properties of the charges of the different forces, concluding with a discussion on neutrino properties beyond the Standard Model.Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Preliminary Notions.
Nucleons, Leptons and Mesons.
Symmetries.
Hadrons.
Quantum Electrodynamics.
Chromodynamics.
Weak Interactions.
Oscillations and CP Violation in Quarks.
The Standard Model.
Neutrinos.
Gravitational Waves.
Epilogue.
Appendix 1 Greek Alphabet.
Appendix 2 Fundamental Constants.
Appendix 3 Properties of Elementary Particles.
Appendix 4 Clebsch–Gordan Coefficients.
Appendix 5 Spherical Harmonics and d-Functions.
Appendix 6 Experimental and Theoretical Discoveries in Particle Physics.
Solutions.
References.
Index.True PDF