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An accessible and carefully structured introduction to Particle Physics, including important coverage of the Higgs Boson and recent progress in neutrino physics.

* Fourth edition of this successful title in the Manchester Physics series

* Includes information on recent key discoveries including: An account of the discovery of exotic hadrons, byond the simple quark model; Expanded treatments of neutrino physics and CP violation in B-decays; An updated account of 'physics beyond the standard model', including the interaction of particle physics with cosmology

* Additional problems in all chapters, with solutions to selected problems available on the book's website

* Advanced material appears in optional starred sections

 

 

Table of contents:

Editors' preface to the Manchester Physics Series xiii / Authors' preface xv / Suggested Short Course xvii / Notes xix

 

Physical Constants, Conversion Factors and Natural Units xxi // 1 Some basic concepts 1 / 1.1 Introduction 1 / 1.2 Antiparticles 3 / 1.2.1 Relativistic wave equations 3 / 1.2.2 Hole theory and the positron 6 / 1.3 Interactions and Feynman diagrams 9 / 1.3.1 Basic electromagnetic processes 10 / 1.3.2 Real processes 11 / 1.3.3 Electron¿positron pair production and annihilation 13 / 1.3.4 Other processes 15 / 1.4 Particle exchange 15 / 1.4.1 Range of forces 15 / 1.4.2 The Yukawa potential 17 / 1.4.3 The zero-range approximation 18 / 1.5 Units and dimensions 19 / Problems 1 22 // 2 Leptons and the weak interaction 24 / 2.1 Lepton multiplets and lepton numbers 24 / 2.1.1 Electron neutrinos 25 / 2.1.2 Further generations 28 / 2.2 Leptonic weak interactions 31 / 2.2.1 W± and Z0 exchange 31 / 2.2.2 Lepton decays and universality 33 / 2.3 Neutrino masses and neutrino mixing 35 / 2.3.1 Neutrino mixing 35 / 2.3.2 Neutrino oscillations 38 / 2.3.3 Neutrino masses 46 / 2.3.4 Lepton numbers revisited 48 / Problems 2 50 // 3 Quarks and hadrons 52 / 3.1 Quarks 53 / 3.2 General properties of hadrons 55 / 3.3 Pions and nucleons 58 / 3.4 Strange particles, charm and bottom 61 / 3.5 Short-lived hadrons 66 / 3.6 Allowed and exotic quantum numbers 72 / Problems 3 75 // 4 Experimental methods 77 / 4.1 Overview 77 / 4.2 Accelerators and beams 79 / 4.2.1 Linear accelerators 80 / 4.2.2 Cyclic accelerators 81 / 4.2.3 Fixed-target machines and colliders 83 / 4.2.4 Neutral and unstable particle beams 85 / 4.3 Particle interactions with matter 86 / 4.3.1 Short-range interactions with nuclei 86 / 4.3.2 Ionisation energy losses 89 / 4.3.3 Radiation energy losses 92 / 4.3.4 Interactions of photons in matter 93 / 4.3.5 Ranges and interaction lengths 94 / 4.4 Particle detectors 95 / 4.4.1 Introduction 96 / 4.4.2 Gaseous ionisation detectors 97 / 4.4.3 Semiconductor detectors 103 / 4.4.4 Scintillation counters 104 / 4.4.5 Cerenkov counters and transition radiation 105 / 4.4.6 Calorimeters 109 / 4.5 Detector systems and accelerator experiments 112 / 4.5.1 Discovery of the W± and Z0 bosons 113 / 4.5.2 Some modern detector systems 117 / 4.6 Non-accelerator experiments 121 / Problems 4 123 // 5 Space-time symmetries 126 / 5.1 Translational invariance 127 / 5.2 Rotational invariance 129 / 5.2.1 Angular momentum conservation 129 / 5.2.2 Classification of particles 132 / 5.2.3 Angular momentum in the quark model 134 / 5.3 Parity 135 / 5.3.1 Leptons and antileptons 137 / 5.3.2 Quarks and hadrons 139 / 5.3.3 Parity of the charged pion 140 / 5.3.4 Parity of the photon 141 / 5.4 Charge conjugation 142 / 5.4.1 ¿0 and ¿ decays 144 / 5.5 Positronium 145 / 5.5.1 Fine structure 147 / 5.5.2 C-parity and annihilations 148 / 5.6 Time reversal 149 / 5.6.1 Principle of detailed balance 151 / 5.6.2 Spin of the charged pion 152 / Problems 5 153 // 6 The quark model 155 / 6.1 Isospin symmetry 156 / 6.1.1 Isospin quantum numbers 157 / 6.1.2 Allowed quantum numbers 158 / 6.1.3 An example: the sigma (¿) baryons 159 / 6.1.4 The u, d quark mass splitting 161 / 6.2 The lightest hadrons 162 / 6.2.1 The light mesons 162 / 6.2.2 The light baryons 164 / 6.2.3 Baryon magnetic moments 167 / 6.2.4 Hadron mass splittings 169 / 6.3 The L = 0 heavy quark states 174 / 6.4 Colour 177 / 6.4.1 Colour charges and confinement 178 / 6.4.2 Colour wavefunctions and the Pauli principle 182 / 6.5 Charmonium and bottomonium 184 / 6.5.1 Charmonium 185 / 6.5.2 Bottomonium 189 / 6.5.3 The quark-antiquark potential 189 / Problems 6 191 // 7 QCD, jets and gluons 193 / 7.1 Quantum chromodynamics 193 / 7.1.1 The strong coupling constant 197 / 7.1.2 Screening, antiscreening and asymptotic freedom 199 / 7.1.3 Exotic hadrons 201 / 7.1.4 The quark-gluon plasma 208 / 7.2 Electron-positron annihilation 210 / 7.2.1 Two-jet events 211 / 7.2.2 Three-jet events 213 / 7.2.3 The total cross-section 214 / Problems 7 215 // 8 Quarks and partons 217 / 8.1 Elastic electron scattering: the size of the proton 217 / 8.1.1 Static charge distributions 218 / 8.1.2 Proton form factors 219 / 8.1.3 The basic cross-section formulas 221 / 8.2 Inelastic electron and muon scattering 222 / 8.2.1 Bjorken scaling 224 / 8.2.2 The parton model 226 / 8.2.3 Parton distributions and scaling violations 228 / 8.3 Inelastic neutrino scattering 231 / 8.3.1 Quark identification and quark charges 234 / 8.4 Other processes 236 / 8.4.1 Lepton pair production 239 / 8.4.2 Jets in pp collisions 242 / 8.5 Current and constituent quarks 243 / Problems 8 246 // 9 Weak interactions: quarks and leptons 248 / 9.1 Charged current reactions 250 / 9.1.1 W±-lepton interactions 250 / 9.1.2 Lepton-quark symmetry and mixing 254 / 9.1.3 W boson decays 258 / 9.1.4 Selection rules in weak decays 259 / 9.2 The third generation 262 / 9.2.1 More quark mixing 263 / 9.2.2 Properties of the top quark 265 / 9.2.3 Discovery of the top quark 267 / Problems 9 274 // 10 Weak interactions: electroweak unification 276 / 10.1 Neutral currents and the unified theory 277 / 10.1.1 The basic vertices 277 / 10.1.2 The unification condition and the W± and Z0 masses 279 / 10.1.3 Electroweak reactions 281 / 10.1.4 Z0 formation: how many generations are there? 284 / 10.2 Gauge invariance and the Higgs boson 287 / 10.2.1 Unification and the gauge principle 289 / 10.2.2 Particle masses and the Higgs field 290 / 10.2.3 Properties of the Higgs boson 294 / 10.2.4 The discovery of the Higgs boson 297 / Problems 10 305 // 11 Discrete symmetries: C, P, CP and CPT 308 / 11.1 P violation, C violation and CP conservation 308 / 11.1.1 Muon decay symmetries 310 / 11.1.2 Left-handed neutrinos and right-handed antineutrinos 312 / 11.1.3 Pion and muon decays revisited 314 / 11.2 CP violation and particle-antiparticle mixing 316 / 11.2.1 CP eigenstates of neutral kaons 316 / 11.2.2 The discovery of CP violation 319 / 11.2.3 CP-violating K0L decays 321 / 11.2.4 Flavour oscillations and the CPT theorem 324 / 11.2.5 Direct CP violation in decay rates 328 / 11.2.6 B0 - B0 mixing 329 / 11.2.7 CP violation in interference 335 / 11.2.8 Derivation of the mixing formulas 338 / 11.3 CP violation in the standard model 340 / Problems 11 343 // 12 Beyond the standard model 346 / 12.1 Grand unification 347 / 12.1.1 Quark and lepton charges 349 / 12.1.2 The weak mixing angle 349 / 12.1.3 Proton decay 350 / 12.2 Supersymmetry 354 / 12.2.1 The search for supersymmetry 356 / 12.3 Strings and things 358 / 12.4 Particle physics and cosmology 360 / 12.4.1 Dark matter 360 / 12.4.2 Matter-antimatter asymmetry 367 / 12.4.3 CP violation and electric dipole moments 369 / 12.4.4 Axions and the strong CP problem 371 / 12.5 Dirac or Majorana neutrinos? 373 / 12.5.1 Double beta decay 375 / Problems 12 381 // A Relativistic kinematics 383 / A.1 The Lorentz transformation for energy and momentum 383 / A.2 The invariant mass 385 / A.2.1 Beam energies and thresholds 385 / A.2.2 Masses of unstable particles 387 / A.3 Transformation of the scattering angle 388 / Problems A 390 // B Amplitudes and cross-sections 392 / B.1 Rates and cross-sections 392 / B.2 The total cross-section 394 / B.3 Differential cross-sections 395 / B.4 The scattering amplitude 397 / B.5 The Breit-Wigner formula 400 / B.5.1 Decay distributions 401 / B.5.2 Resonant cross-sections 404 / Problems B 406 // C The isospin formalism 408 / C.1 Isospin operators 409 / C.2 Isospin states 411 / C.3 Isospin multiplets 411 / C.3.1 Hadron states 412 / C.4 Branching ratios 414 / C.5 Spin states 416 / Problems C 416 // D Gauge theories 418 / D.1 Electromagnetic interactions 419 / D.2 Gauge transformations 420 / D.3 Gauge invariance and the photon mass 421 / D.4 The gauge principle 423 / D.5 The Higgs mechanism 425 / D.5.1 Charge and current densities 425 / D.5.2 Spin-0 bosons 427 / D.5.3 Spontaneous symmetry breaking 428 / D.6 Quantum chromodynamics 429 / D.7 Electroweak interactions 434 / D.7.1 Weak isospin 434 / D.7.2 Gauge invariance and charged currents 436 / D.7.3 The unification condition 437 / D.7.4 Spin structure and parity violation 440 / Problems D 441 // E Answers to selected questions 443 / References 448 / Index 451