TY - BOOK AU - Cottingham,W.N. AU - Greenwood,D.A. ED - Cambridge University Press. TI - An introduction to the standard model of particle physics SN - 0521588324 AV - QC794.6.S75 C68 2003 PY - 2003/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University KW - Standard model (Nuclear physics) N1 - 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 ER -