粒子物理学标准模型导论

Preface to the second edition

Preface to the first edition

Notation

1 The particle physicists view of Nature

1.1 Introduction

1.2 The construction of the Standard Model

1.3 Leptons

1.4 Quarks and systems of quarks

1.5 Spectroscopy of systems of light quarks

1.6 More quarks

1.7 Quark colour

1.8 Electron scattering from nucleons

1.9 Particle accelerators

1.10 Units

2 Lorentz transformations

2.1 Rotations， boosts and proper Lorentz transformations

2.2 Scalars， contravariant and covariant four-vectors

2.3 Fields

2.4 The Levi-Civita tensor

2.5 Time reversal and space inversion

3 The Lagrangian formulation of mechanics

3.1 Hamiltons principle

3.2 Conservation of energy

3.3 Continuous systems

3.4 A Lorentz covariant field theory

3.5 The Klein-Gordon equation

3.6 The energy-momentum tensor

3.7 Complex scalar fields

4 Classical electromagnetism

4.1 Maxwells equations

4.2 A Lagrangian density for electromagnetism

4.3 Gauge transformations

4.4 Solutions of Maxwells equations

4.5 Space inversion

4.6 Charge conjugation

4.7 Intrinsic angular momentum of the photon

4.8 The energy density of the electromagnetic field

4.9 Massive vector fields

5 The Dirac equation and the Dirac field

5.1 The Dirac equation

5.2 Lorentz transformations and Lorentz invariance

5.3 The parity transformation

5.4 Spinors

5.5 The matrices

5.6 Making the Lagrangian density real

6 Free space solutions of the Dirac equation

6.1 A Dirac particle at rest

6.2 The intrinsic spin of a Dirac particle

6.3 Plane waves and helicity

6.4 Negative energy solutions

6.5 The energy and momentum of the Dirac field

6.6 Dirac and Majorana fields

6.7 The E ] ] m limit， neutrinos

7 Electrodynamics

7.1 Probability density and probability current

7.2 The Dirac equation with an electromagnetic field

7.3 Gauge transformations and symmetry

7.4 Charge conjugation

7.5 The electrodynamics of a charged scalar field

7.6 Particles at low energies and the Dirac magnetic moment

8 Quantising fields： QED

8.1 Boson and fermion field quantisation

8.2 Time dependence

8.3 Perturbation theory

8.4 Renornmalisation and renormalisable field theories

8.5 The magnetic moment of the electron

8.6 Quantisation in the Standard Model

9 The weak interaction： !ow energy phenomenology

9.1 Nuclear beta decay

9.2 Pion decay

9.3 Conservation of lepton number

9.4 Muon decay

9.5 The interactions of muon neutrinos with electrons

10 Symmetry breaking in model theories

10.1 Global symmetry breaking and Goldstone bosons

10.2 Local symmetry breaking and the Higgs boson

11 Massive gauge fields

11.1 SU(2) symmetry

11.2 The gauge fields

11.3 Breaking the SU(2) symmetry

11.4 Identification of the fields

12 The Weinberg——Salam electroweak theory for leptons

12.1 Lepton doublets and the Weinberg-Salam theory

12.2 Lepton coupling to the W

12.3 Lepton coupling to the Z

12.4 Conservation of lepton number and conservation of charge

12.5 CP symmetry

12.6 Mass terms in ： an attempted generalisation

13 Experimental tests of the Weinberg——Salam theory

13.1 The search for the gauge bosons

13.2 The W bosons

13.3 The Z boson

13.4 The number of lepton families

13.5 The measurement of partial widths

13.6 Left-right production cross-section asymmetry and lepton decay symmetry of the Z boson

14 The electromagnetic and weak interactions of quarks

14.1 Construction of the Lagrangian density

14.2 Quark masses and the Kobayashi-Maskawa mixing matrix

14.3 The parameterisation of the KM matrix

14.4 CP symmetry and the KM matrix

14.5 The weak interaction in the low energy limit

15 The hadronic decays of the Z and W bosons

15.1 Hadronic decays of the Z

15.2 Asymmetry in quark production

15.3 Hadronic decays of the W

16 The theory of strong interactions： quantum chromodynamics

16.1 A local SU(3) gauge theory

16.2 Colour gauge transformations on baryons and mesons

16.3 Lattice QCD and asymptotic freedom

16.4 The quark-antiquark interaction at short distances

16.5 The conservation of quarks

16.6 Isospin symmetry

16.7 Chiral symmetry

17 Quantum chromodynamics： calculations

17.1 Lattice QCD and confinement

17.2 Lattice QCD and hadrons

17.3 Perturbative QCD and deep inelastic scattering

17.4 Perturbative QCD and e+e- collider physics

18 The Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix

18.1 Leptonic weak decays of hadrons

18.2 |Vud| and nuclear decay

18.3 More leptonic decays

18.4 CP symmetry violation in neutral kaon decays

18.5 B meson decays and B，B mixing

18.6 The CPTtheorem

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《粒子物理学标准模型导论(第2版)》从介子和夸克的电磁作用和弱相互作用开始，讲到了夸克的强相互作用，内容层层深入。介绍标准模型的同时，作者非常注重选材的可进阶性，方便读者更深入的研读。