ABSTRACT

Get First-Hand Insight from a Contributor to the Standard Model of Particle PhysicsWritten by an award-winning former director-general of CERN and one of the world's leading experts on particle physics, Electroweak Interactions explores the concepts that led to unification of the weak and electromagnetic interactions. It provides the fundamental el

chapter 1|8 pages

The General Picture

chapter 2|16 pages

Isotopic Spin And Strangeness

chapter 3|10 pages

YANG–MILLS THEORY

chapter 4|8 pages

Electroweak Unification I

chapter 5|16 pages

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

chapter 6|8 pages

Electroweak Unification II

chapter 8|12 pages

Quarks In Three Colours

chapter 9|6 pages

Theory Of Quark Mixing

chapter 10|12 pages

Electroweak Interactions Of Quarks

chapter 11|6 pages

Digression: Violation Of Isotopic Spin

chapter 13|16 pages

Flavour–changing Neutral Currents

chapter 14|24 pages

The Search For The Higgs Boson