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1 online resource (441 p.) |
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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: A History of Particle Physics -- 1.1 Atomic Theory -- 1.2 Atomic Structure -- 1.3 Forces and Interactions -- 1.4 Strange and Unexpected Developments -- 1.5 Strangeness -- 1.6 Quarks and Symmetries -- 1.7 The Standard Model of Particle Physics -- 1.8 The Current State of the Field -- 1.9 Exercises -- Chapter 2: Special Relativity -- 2.1 Lorentz Transformations -- 2.1.1 Scalars, Vectors, and Reference Frames -- 2.1.2 Special Relativity -- 2.1.3 Minkowski Space |
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2.2 Energy and Momentum in Minkowski Space -- 2.2.1 Example Calculation -- 2.2.2 Invariant Mass -- 2.3 Exercises -- Chapter 3: Quantum Mechanics -- 3.1 States and Operators -- 3.2 The Schrödinger Equation -- 3.3 Probability Current -- 3.4 Angular Momentum and Spin -- 3.5 Spin 1/2 Particles and the Pauli Matrices -- 3.6 The Hamiltonian -- 3.6.1 The Lagrangian -- 3.7 Quantum Mechanics and Electromagnetism: The Schrödinger Approach -- 3.8 Quantum Mechanics and Electromagnetism: The Pauli Equation -- 3.9 Exercises -- Chapter 4: Symmetries and Groups -- 4.1 The Importance of Symmetry in Physics |
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4.2 Discrete Symmetries -- 4.2.1 Mathematical Structure of Discrete Symmetries -- 4.2.2 Discrete Symmetries in Particle Physics -- 4.3 Continuous Symmetries -- 4.3.1 Mathematical Structure of Continuous Symmetries -- 4.3.2 Continuous Symmetries in Particle Physics -- 4.4 Exercises -- Chapter 5: Experimental Particle Physics -- 5.1 Detectors -- 5.1.1 Interactions of Particles with Matter -- 5.1.2 Early Detectors -- 5.1.3 Modern Detectors -- 5.2 Accelerators -- 5.2.1 Linear Accelerators -- 5.2.2 Cyclotrons -- 5.2.3 Synchrotrons |
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5.3 Measurable Quantities in Particle Physics: Matching Theory to Experiment -- 5.3.1 Cross-Sections -- 5.3.2 Lifetimes -- 5.4 Exercises -- Chapter 6: Particle Classification -- 6.1 The Spin-Statistics Theorem -- 6.2 The Strong Force -- 6.2.1 Isospin -- 6.2.2 Flavor SU (3) -- 6.3 Color -- 6.4 Building Hadrons -- 6.4.1 Quark Content -- 6.4.2 Mass -- 6.4.3 Resonances -- 6.4.4 Larger Flavor Symmetries -- 6.5 Exercises -- Chapter 7: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics -- 7.1 The Klein-Gordon Equation -- 7.1.1 A Relativistic Schrödinger Equation -- 7.1.2 Solutions of the Klein-Gordon Equation |
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7.1.3 Conserved Current -- 7.2 The Maxwell and Proca Equations -- 7.2.1 Derivation of the Maxwell Equation -- 7.2.2 Solutions of the Maxwell Equation -- 7.2.3 Including Mass: The Proca Equation -- 7.2.4 Spin of Vector Particles -- 7.3 Combining Equations: How Do Particles Interact? -- 7.3.1 Quantum Field Theory Without the Maths -- 7.3.2 Feynman Rules -- 7.4 Exercises -- Chapter 8: The Dirac Equation -- 8.1 A Linear Relativistic Equation -- 8.2 Representations of the Gamma Matrices -- 8.2.1 The Dirac Representation -- 8.2.2 The Weyl Representation -- 8.3 Spinors and Lorentz Transformations |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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8.4 Solutions of the Dirac Equation |
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Particles (Nuclear physics)
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particle physics.
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Particles (Nuclear physics)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781683928768 |
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1683928768 |
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