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Modern Elementary Particle Physics: Explaining and Extending the Standard Model
This book is written for students and scientists wanting to learn about the Standard Model of particle physics. Only an introductory course knowledge about quantum theory is needed. The text provides a pedagogical description of the theory, and incorporates the recent Higgs boson and top quark discoveries. With its clear and engaging style, this new edition retains its essential simplicity. Long and detailed calculations are replaced by simple approximate ones. It includes introductions to accelerators, colliders, and detectors, and several main experimental tests of the Standard Model are explained. Descriptions of some well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model prepare the reader for new developments. It emphasizes the concepts of gauge theories and Higgs physics, electroweak unification and symmetry breaking, and how force strengths vary with energy, providing a solid foundation for those working in the field, and for those who simply want to learn about the Standard Model.
226 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 9, 2017
About the author
Gordon L. Kane
19 books11 followersGordon Kane is the Victor Weisskopf Collegiate Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan, and the director of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics. He was awarded the Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society, and is the author of The Particle Garden.
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January 22, 2019
Apart from an article I will write on my website about my own category of book: This book is another kind of text books one can not sort it in a full semester text book, but in the category of mine, that students or even non-particle physicists in another branches like condense matter, cosmology and Astrophysics can use for short courses or summer/winter professional schools (Astroparticle cosmology and nuclear astrophysics courses should have a particle physics course in details, but even useful for them).
Despite of many who mistakenly start this short review for detailed courses, I think if someone in those short courses and review for the exams and so on would like to learn something more and for a thesis not sink in standard model or QFT references for the first steps, this is exactly the book with clear description. Balanced text and Formulation.
I did not think I would like it. But for those proposes in my more than a decade experience of academic courses and schools even workshops which are popular all over the world for graduate students (B.Sc students also can try them), is a really helpful reference.
Reviewing particle Physics in all scales of energy and even some clues about near future researches, open questions and SUSSY idea in the last part as many books have this part as a reasonable but not globally accepted.
Morii's book is another example that PhD students also use it for a fast review of mostly standard model, more calculation but easy to follow and derive the calculations and start their research. In my point of view Morii's book is in more details but still in the same category of mine. For those who work on weak interactions that book is a really clear and not unnecessarily messy.
Despite of many who mistakenly start this short review for detailed courses, I think if someone in those short courses and review for the exams and so on would like to learn something more and for a thesis not sink in standard model or QFT references for the first steps, this is exactly the book with clear description. Balanced text and Formulation.
I did not think I would like it. But for those proposes in my more than a decade experience of academic courses and schools even workshops which are popular all over the world for graduate students (B.Sc students also can try them), is a really helpful reference.
Reviewing particle Physics in all scales of energy and even some clues about near future researches, open questions and SUSSY idea in the last part as many books have this part as a reasonable but not globally accepted.
Morii's book is another example that PhD students also use it for a fast review of mostly standard model, more calculation but easy to follow and derive the calculations and start their research. In my point of view Morii's book is in more details but still in the same category of mine. For those who work on weak interactions that book is a really clear and not unnecessarily messy.
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