An introduction to the standard model of particle physics / W.N. Cottingham and D.A. Greenwood.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-214) and index.

The particle physicist's view of Nature -- Lorentz transformations -- The Lagrangian formulation of mechanics -- Classical electromagnetism -- The Dirac equation and the Dirac field -- Free space solutions of the Dirac equation -- Electrodynamics -- Quantising fields : QED -- The weak interaction : low energy phenomenology -- Symmetry breaking in model theories -- Massive gauge fields -- The Weinberg-Salam electroweak theory for leptons -- Experimental tests of the Weinberg-Salam theory -- The electromagnetic and weak interactions of quarks -- The hadronic decays of the Z and W bosons -- The theory of strong interactions : quantum chromodynamics -- Quantum chromodynamics : calculations -- The Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix -- Anomalies -- Epilogue -- Appendix A. An aide-mémoire on matrices -- Appendix B. The groups of the Standard Model -- Appendix C. Annihilation and creation operators -- Appendix D. The parton model