title: Quarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics
author: Francis Halzen
description: This self-contained text describes breakthroughs in our understanding of the structure and interactions of elementary particles. It provides students of theoretical or experimental physics with the background material to grasp the significance of these developments.
zlib_text: ii
   
  JACOB LINDER
  INTRODUCTION TO 
  PARTICLE PHYSICS
  Download free eBooks at bookboon.com
  
  iii
  Introduction to Particle Physics
  1st edition
  © 2017 Jacob Linder & bookboon.com
  ISBN 978-87-403-1704-6
  Peer review by Prof. Michael Kachelriess, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  Download free eBooks at bookboon.com
  
  INTRODUCTION TO PARTICLE PHYSICS
  iv
  Contents
  iv
  CONTENTS
  I. Overview of elementary particles and their interactions  
  8
   
  A. The fundamental interactions 
  8
   
  B. Quantum electrodynamics  
  9
   
  C. Quantum chromodynamics  
  12
   
  D. Weak interactions 
  15
   
  E. Briefly on neutrino oscillations  
  20
  II. Conservation laws and symmetries  
  21
   
  A. Decays and conserved quantities  
  21
   
  B. The concept of symmetry and symmetry groups 
  23
   
  C. Introduction to group theory: SU(2) vs. SO(3) 
  25
   
  D. Isospin  
  28
   
  E. Charge conjugation and parity  
  30
   
  F. CP-violation and the TCP theorem  
  31
  Download free eBooks at bookboon.com
  Click on the ad to read more
  www.sylvania.com
  We do n