Beschreibung:
Revised and updated, the second volume of this bestselling set provides an accessible and practical introduction to the two non-Abelian quantum gauge field theories of the Standard Model of particle physics. Covering much of the experimental progress made in the last ten years, this volume includes a new chapter on CP violation and oscillation phenomena and discusses the recent discovery of a Higgs-like boson. It also updates many other topics, including jet algorithms, lattice QCD, effective Lagrangians, and three-generation quark mixing and the CKM matrix.
Non-Abelian Symmetries. QCD and the Renormalization Group. Spontaneously Broken Symmetry. Weak Interactions and the Electroweak Theory. Appendices. References. Index.