Intro Elementary Particle Physics

by Alessandro Bettini

The Standard Model is the most comprehensive physical theory ever developed. This textbook conveys the basic elements of the Standard Model using elementary concepts, without the theoretical rigor found in most other texts on this subject. It contains examples of basic experiments, allowing readers to see how measurements and theory interplay in the development of physics. The author examines leptons, hadrons and quarks, before presenting the dynamics and the surprising properties of the charges of the different forces. The textbook concludes with a brief discussion on the recent discoveries of physics beyond the Standard Model, and its connections with cosmology. Quantitative examples are given, and the reader is guided through the necessary calculations. Each chapter ends in the exercises, and solutions to some problems are included in the book. Complete solutions are available to instructors at www.cambridge.org/9780521880213. This textbook is suitable for advanced undergraduate students and graduate students.

447 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 8, 2008

About the author

Alessandro Bettini è professore emerito di Fisica all’Università di Padova e ricercatore sperimentale nella fisica delle particelle elementari. Vicepresidente della Società Italiana di Fisica, per sei anni direttore del Laboratorio Nazionale del Gran Sasso e in precedenza vicepresidente dell’Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare.