Quarks and Leptones

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.Diese in sich geschlossene Einfuhrung in die Struktur und Wechselwirkung von Elemntarteilchen wendet sich gleicherma?en an Studenten der theoretischen Physik und der Experimentalphysik. A Preview of Particle Physics.

Symmetries and Quarks.

Antiparticles.

Electrodynamics of Spinless Particles.

The Dirac Equation.

Electrodynamics of Spin-1/2 Paritcles.

Loops, Renormalization, Running Coupling Constants, and All That.

The Structure of Hadrons.

Partons.

Quantum Chromodynamics.

Annihilation and QCD.

Weak Interactions.

Electroweak Interactions.

Gauge Symmetries.

The Weinberg-Salam Model and Beyond.

Index.

Francis Halzen and Alan D. Martin are the authors of Quarks and Leptones: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics, published by Wiley.