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Author Maiani, L. (Luciano)

Title Electroweak interactions / Luciano Maiani ; translated from the original Italian by Geoffrey Hall
Published Boca Raton : CRC Press, ©2016
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Contents 880-01 Chapter 1. The general picture -- chapter 2. Isotopic spin and strangeness -- chapter 3. Yang-Mills theory -- chapter 4. Electroweak unification I -- chapter 5. Spontaneous symmetry breaking -- chapter 6. Electroweak unification II -- chapter 7. Determination of the neutral lepton current -- chapter 8. Quarks in three colours -- chapter 9. Theory of quark mixing -- chapter 10. Electroweak interactions of quarks -- chapter 11. Digression : violation of isotopic spin -- chapter 12. Mixing and CP violation in neutral K, B and D mesons -- chapter 13. Flavour-changing neutral currents -- chapter 14. The search for the Higgs Boson
880-01/(S <P><STRONG>THE GENERAL PICTURE <BR></STRONG>INTRODUCTION <BR>THE FORCES OF NATURE </P><P></P><B><P>ISOTOPIC SPIN AND STRANGENESS</B> <BR>THE PION NUCLEON AMPLITUDE <BR>ISOSPIN AND WEAK CURRENTS <BR>SU(3) SYMMETRY </P><P><STRONG>YANG-MILLS THEORY <BR></STRONG>NONCOMMUTATIVE LOCAL SYMMETRIES <BR>THE MINIMAL LAGRANGIAN</P><P><STRONG>ELECTROWEAK UNIFICATION I <BR></STRONG>SYMMETRIES OF THE ELECTRON DOUBLET <BR>THE MINIMAL GAUGE GROUP <BR>THE GLASHOW THEORY </P><P></P><B><P>SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING</B> <BR>THE GOLDSTONE MODEL <BR>SPECTRUM OF FLUCTUATIONS FOR μ2 <0 <BR>GOLDSTONE'S THEOREM <BR>THE BROUT-ENGLERT-HIGGS MECHANISM <BR>MASSES OF VECTOR PARTICLES IN THE UNITARY GAUGE <BR>THE MASSIVE VECTOR FIELD </P><P></P><B><P>ELECTROWEAK UNIFICATION II</B> <BR>THE THEORY OF WEINBERG AND SALAM <BR>THE SCALAR DOUBLET <BR>THE MASSES OF THE VECTOR FIELDS <BR>THE MASS OF THE ELECTRON <BR>THE MASS OF THE NEUTRINO</P><P></P><B><P>DETERMINATION OF THE NEUTRAL LEPTON CURRENT <BR></B>CROSS SECTIONS OF THE PROCESSES νμ − e, ¯νμ − e <BR>THE FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS <BR>LEPTONIC WIDTH OF THE Z <BR>RELATIVISTIC BREIT WIGNER FORMULA <BR>THE PHYSICS OF THE Z IN THE REACTION e+ e− </P><P></P><B><P>QUARKS IN THREE COLORS</B> <BR>THE SAKATA MODEL <BR>THE EIGHTFOLD WAY AND QUARKS <BR>QUARK COLORS <BR>QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS (QCD)</P><P></P><B><P>THEORY OF QUARK MIXING <BR></B>THE CABIBBO THEORY <BR>THE GLASHOW, ILIOPOULOS, AND MAIANI MECHANISM <BR>CP VIOLATION AND THE KOBAYASHI MASKAWA THEORY</P><P></P><B><P>ELECTROWEAK INTERACTIONS OF QUARKS <BR></B>ORIGIN OF THE MASSES AND MIXING BETWEEN QUARKS <BR>THE CABIBBO KOBAYASHI MASKAWA MATRIX <BR>THE Z AND W DECAY WIDTHS <BR>THE STANDARD MODEL LAGRANGIAN </P><P></P><B><P>DIGRESSION: VIOLATION OF ISOTOPIC SPIN</B> <BR>GOLDSTONE BOSONS IN SU(3)L ⊗ SU(3)R <BR>PIONS AND KAONS AS "QUASI" GOLDSTONE BOSONS <BR>THE VIOLATION OF ISOTOPIC SPIN </P><P></P><B><P>MIXING and CP VIOLATION IN THE NEUTRAL K, B, and D MESONS <BR></B>MIXING AND CP VIOLATION IN THE K0 − ¯K 0 SYSTEM<BR>MIXING OF THE NEUTRAL B AND D MESONS </P><P></P><B><P>FLAVOR-CHANGING NEUTRAL CURRENTS</B> <BR>THE ¯K 0 → K0 AMPLITUDE <BR>EFFECTIVE LAGRANGIAN, COLOR FACTOR, VACUUM SATURATION <BR>THE AMPLITUDES ¯B0D→ B0D, ¯B0S− B0S, and ¯D0 → D0 <BR>NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON WITH DATA </P><P></P><B><P>THE SEARCH FOR THE HIGGS BOSON <BR></B>INTERACTIONS OF THE HIGGS BOSON <BR>SEARCHES AT e+e− and PROTON COLLIDERS <BR>THE 125 GEV PARTICLE </P><P></P><B><P>Appendix A: Kallen Lehman representation of the two Point function <BR>Appendix B: A useful decomposition for finite dimensional matrices <BR>Appendix C: Continuous groups and their representations</P></B>
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Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 21, 2015)
Subject Electroweak interactions.
Electromagnetic interactions.
SCIENCE -- Physics -- Quantum Theory.
Electromagnetic interactions
Electroweak interactions
Form Electronic book
Author Hall, Geoffrey, translator
ISBN 9781498722261
1498722261
Other Titles Interazioni elettrodeboli. English