Leptons and Quarks

(Special Edition Commemorating the Discovery of the Higgs Boson)

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Physics, Nuclear Physics, Other Sciences, Reference
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Author: Lev B Okun ISBN: 9789814603140
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Publication: April 29, 2014
Imprint: WSPC Language: English
Author: Lev B Okun
ISBN: 9789814603140
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Publication: April 29, 2014
Imprint: WSPC
Language: English

The book “Leptons and Quarks” was first published in the early 1980s, when the program of the experimental search for the intermediate bosons W and Z and Higgs boson H was formulated. The aim and scope of the present extended edition of the book, written after the experimental discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, is to reflect the various stages of this 30+ years search. Along with the text of the first edition of “Leptons and Quarks” it contains extracts from a number of books published by World Scientific and an article from “On the concepts of vacuum and mass and the search for higgs” available from http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/mpla or from http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1031.

The book is unique in communicating the Electroweak Theory at a basic level and in connecting the concept of Lorenz invariant mass with the concept of the Extended Standard Model, which includes gravitons as the carriers of gravitational interaction.

Contents:

  • Introduction
  • Structure of Weak Currents
  • Muon decay
  • Strangeness-Conserving Leptonic Decays of Hadrons. Properties of the Ud-Current
  • Leptonic Decays of Pions and Nucleons
  • Leptonic Decays of K-Mesons and Hyperons
  • Strangeness-Changing Non-Leptonic Interactions
  • Phenomenology of Non-Leptonic Interactions
  • Dynamics of Non-Leptonic Decays of Hyperons
  • Non-Leptonic Decays of K-Mesons
  • Neutral K-Mesons in Vacuum and in Matter
  • Violation of CP Invariance
  • Decays of the τ-Lepton
  • Decays of Charmed Particles
  • Weak Decays b- and t-Quarks
  • Neutrino–Electron Interactions
  • Neutrino–Nucleon Interactions
  • Renormalizability
  • Gauge Invariance
  • Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
  • Standard Model of the Electroweak Interaction
  • Neutral Currents
  • Properties of Intermediate Bosons
  • Properties of Higgs Bosons
  • Grand Unification
  • Superunification
  • Particles and the Universe
  • Bibliography
  • Apendix (Some Useful Formulas)
  • Tables of Experimental Data

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in high energy and particle physics.
Key Features:

  • The book differs from the competing titles by the unique interpretation of real and virtual particles in the framework of Feynman diagrams and by the unique inclusion of gravitons in the framework of the Extended Standard Model
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The book “Leptons and Quarks” was first published in the early 1980s, when the program of the experimental search for the intermediate bosons W and Z and Higgs boson H was formulated. The aim and scope of the present extended edition of the book, written after the experimental discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, is to reflect the various stages of this 30+ years search. Along with the text of the first edition of “Leptons and Quarks” it contains extracts from a number of books published by World Scientific and an article from “On the concepts of vacuum and mass and the search for higgs” available from http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/mpla or from http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1031.

The book is unique in communicating the Electroweak Theory at a basic level and in connecting the concept of Lorenz invariant mass with the concept of the Extended Standard Model, which includes gravitons as the carriers of gravitational interaction.

Contents:

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in high energy and particle physics.
Key Features:

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