A01=Ioannis John Demetrius Vergados
Author_Ioannis John Demetrius Vergados
Big Bang
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Charge Conjugation
Cosmology
CP Symmetry
CP Violation
Cross Section
Dark Matter
Dirac Equation
Electroweak Theory
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Femion Currents
Feynman Diagrams
Gauge Symmetry
Grand Unification (GUT)
Group Theory
Helicity
Higgs Mechanism
KM Matrix
Neutrino Oscillations
Parity
Particle Decays
Particle Masses
Quantum Chromodynamics
SM Lagrangian
SM Symmetries
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
Standard Model (SM)
Time Reversal
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- ISBN 9789813228559
- Publication Date: 21 Oct 2017
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Publication City/Country: SG
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book contains a systematic and pedagogical exposition of recent developments in particle physics and cosmology. It starts with two introductory chapters on group theory and the Dirac theory. Then it proceeds with the formulation of the Standard Model (SM) of Particle Physics, particle content and symmetries, fully exploiting the material of the first two chapters. It discusses the concept of gauge symmetries and emphasizes their role in particle physics. It then analyses the Higgs mechanism and the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB). It explains how the particles (gauge bosons and fermions) after the SSB acquire a mass and get admixed. The various forms of charged currents are discussed in detail as well as how the parameters of the SM, which cannot be determined by the theory, are fixed by experiment, including the recent LHC data and the Higgs discovery. Quantum chromodynamics is discussed and various low energy approximations to it are presented. The Feynman diagrams are introduced and applied, at the level of first year graduate students.
Examples are the evaluation of the decay widths of the gauge bosons and some cross sections for interesting processes such as Rutherford scattering, electron-proton scattering (elementary proton or described by a form factor, and inelastic scattering) and Compton scattering.
After that the classic topics like the role of C, P, CP symmetries and the experimental methods needed to verify their conservation or violation are discussed in some detail. Topics beyond the standard model, like supersymmetry for pedestrians and grand unification, are discussed.
To this end neutrino oscillations, dark matter and baryon asymmetry are also briefly discussed at the first year graduate level. Finally, the book contains an exhibition of recent developments in cosmology, especially from the elementary particle point of view.
