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· 분류 : 외국도서 > 과학/수학/생태 > 과학 > 물리학 > 원자력
· ISBN : 9781420082982
· 쪽수 : 616쪽
· 출판일 : 2009-11-01
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Preface
Acknowledgements
Further Reading
Introduction and Overview
Methods of Study
Overview
The Standard Model
Questions
A Review of Special Relativity
Basic Review of Relativity
Spacetime Structure
Momentum and Energy
Collisions
Questions
Symmetries
Groups
Lie Groups
Algebras
The Rotation Group SO(3)
Appendix: Lie Algebras from Lie Groups
Questions
Conservation Laws
The Action Principle
Noether's Theorem
Spacetime Symmetries and their Noether currents
Symmetries and Quantum Mechanics
Summary
Questions
Particle Classfication
General Considerations
Basic Classfication
Spectroscopic Notation
Adding Angular Momenta
Questions
Discrete Symmetries
Parity
Time-reversal
Charge Conjugation
Positronium
The CPT Theorem
Questions
Accelerators
DC Voltage Machines
Linacs
Synchrotrons
Colliders
The Future of Accelerators
Questions
Detectors
Energy Transfer and Deposition
Detector Types
Modern Collider Detectors
Questions
Scattering
Lifetimes
Resonances
Cross Sections
Matrix Elements
2-body Formulae
Detailed Balance Revisited
Questions
A Toy Theory
Feynman Rules
A-Decay
Scattering in the Toy Theory
Higher-order Diagrams
Appendix: n-dimensional integration
Questions
Wave Equations for Elementary Particles
Klein-Gordon Equation
Dirac Equation
Physical Interpretation
Antiparticles
Appendix: The Lorentz Group and its Representations
Questions
Gauge Invariance
Solutions to the Dirac Equation
Conserved Current
The Gauge Principle
The Maxwell-Dirac Equations
The Wavefunction of the Photon
Questions
Quantum Electrodynamics
Feynman Rules for QED
Examples
Obtaining Cross Sections
Appendix: Mathematical Tools for QED
Questions
Testing QED
Basic Features of QED Scattering
Major Tests of QED
Questions
From Nuclei to Quarks
Range of the Nuclear Force
Isospin
Strangeness
Flavor
Color
Questions
The Quark Model
Baryons
Mesons
Mass Relations
Magnetic Moments
Questions
Testing the Quark Model
Vector-Meson Decay
Hadron Production
Elastic Scattering of Electrons and Protons
Deep Inelastic Scattering
Quark Model Predictions
Quark Structure Functions
Questions
Heavy Quarks and QCD
Charm
Bottom
Top
QCD
Appendix: QCD and Yang-Mills Theory
Questions
From Beta Decay to Weak Interactions
Fermi's Theory of Beta-Decay
Neutrino Properties
Kaon Oscillation
Questions
Charged Leptonic Weak Interactions
Neutrino-Electron Scattering
Muon Decay
Appendix: Mathematical Tools for Weak Interactions
Appendix: 3-body phase space decay
Questions
Charged Weak Interactions of Quarks and Leptons
Neutron Decay
Pion Decay
Quark and Lepton Vertices
The GIM Mechanism
The CKM Matrix
Questions
Electroweak Unfication
Neutral Currents
Electroweak Neutral Scattering Processes
The SU(2) _ U(1) Model
Questions
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
The Higgs Mechanism
Breaking the SU(2) Symmetry
Fermion Masses
Appendix: Feynman Rules for Electroweak Theory
Questions
Testing Electroweak Theory
Discovery of the W and Z bosons
Lepton Universality and Running Coupling
The Search for the Higgs
Questions
Beyond the Standard Model
Neutrino Oscillation
Neutrino Experiments
Neutrino Masses and Mixing Angles
Axions and the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment
Frontiers
Summing Up
Questions
Notation and Conventions
Natural Units
Relativistic Notation
Greek Alphabet
Kronecker Delta and Levi-Civita Symbols
Kronecker Delta
Levi-Civita Symbol
Dirac Delta-Functions
Pauli and Dirac Matrices
Pauli Matrices
Dirac Matrices
Identities and Trace Theorems
Cross-Sections and Decay Rates
Decays
Cross-Sections
Clebsch-Gordon Coefficients
Fundamental Constants
Properties of Elementary Particles
Feynman Rules for the Standard Model
The Large Hadron Rap
