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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001564899707536

Autore

Fayyazuddin

Titolo

A modern introduction to particle physics / Fayyazuddin, Riazuddin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, c2000

ISBN

9810238762 (alk. paper)

9810238770 (pbk.)

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xxiv, 717 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Classificazione

LC QC793.2

53.3.11

53.3.13

53.3.16

Altri autori (Persone)

Riazuddinauthor

Disciplina

539.72

Soggetti

Particles (Nuclear physics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction - Scattering and particle interaction - Space-time symmetries - Internal symmetries - Unitary groups and SU(3) - SU(6) and quark model - Color, gauge principle and quantum chromodynamics - Heavy flavors - Heavy quark effective theory (HQET) -- Neutrino -- Weak interactions -- Properties of weak hadronic currents and chiral symmetry - Electroweak unification - Deep inelastic scattering - Particle mixing and CP-Violation - Weak decays of heavy flavors - Grand unification, supersymmetry, and strings - Cosmology and particle physics - A quantum field theory [a summary] - Renormalization group and running coupling constant.