Facts and mysteries in elementary particle physics - Veltman, Martinus (World Scientific Pub., 2003)
Includes index
Preliminaries. Atoms, nuclei and particles -- Photons -- Antiparticles -- Mass and energy -- Events -- Electron-volts and other units -- Particle names and the Greek alphabet -- Scientific notation -- Standard model. Conservation of energy and charge -- Quantum numbers -- Color -- Electron-neutrino, electron number and crossing -- First family -- Families and forces -- Spin 1/2 particles -- Spin 1 and 2 particles -- Forces and interactions -- Classification of interactions -- Electromagnetic, weak, strong, Higgs and gravitational interactions -- Representing interactions -- Origin of quantum numbers -- Quantum mechanics. Mixing. Two-slit experiment -- Amplitude and probability -- Cabibbo and CKM mixing -- Neutrino mixing -- Particle mixing -- Energy, momentum and mass-shell. Conservation laws -- Relativity -- Relativistic invariance -- Relation E [equals] mc [squared] -- Detection. Photoelectric effect -- Bubble chambers -- Spark chambers -- Proportional wire chambers -- Accelerators and storage rings. Energy bubbles -- Accelerators -- Secondary beams -- Machine builders -- CERN neutrino experiment. Experimental set-up -- Neutrino physics -- First neutrino experiments -- Vector bosons -- Missed opportunities --Particle zoo. Bound states -- Structure of quark bound states -- Spin of a bound state -- Mesons -- Baryons -- Exotics -- Discovering quarks -- Triplets versus doublets and lepton-quark symmetry -- Particle theory. Feynman rules -- Infinites -- Perturbation theory -- Renormalizability -- Weak interactions -- Compton scattering -- Neutral vector bosons -- Charmed quarks -- Higgs particle -- General Higgs couplings -- Speculations -- [Rho]-parameter -- Finding the Higgs. Quantum chromodynamics. Confinement -- Asymptotic freedom -- Scaling
A comprehensive overview of modern particle physics, which seeks to be accessible to anyone who wants to know how the universe works. An explanation of quantum mechanics and relativity paves the way for an understanding of the laws that govern particle physics