粒子物理学中的标准模型描述了介子和夸克等基本粒子间的电磁，弱和强相互作用。本书是一本很好的讲解标准模型的研究生教材。本书从介子和夸克的电磁作用和弱相互作用开始，讲到夸克的强相互作用，内容层层深入。介绍标准模型的同时，作者非常注重选材的可进阶性，方便读者更深入的研读。新版中，作者添加了标准模型的新进展，譬如强相互作用理论，物质－反物质不对称性的实验验证和中微子物理的实验和理论等。

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Preface to the second edition

Preface to the first edition

Notation

1 The particle physicist's view of Nature

 1.1Introduction

 1.2 The construction of the Standard Model

 1.3 Leptons

 1.4 Quarks and systems of quarks

 1.5 Spectroscopy of systems of light quarks

 1.6 More quarks

 1.7 Quark colour

 1.8 Electron scattering from nucleons

 1.9 Particle accelerators

 1.10 Units

2 Lorentz transformations

 2.1 Rotations, boosts and proper Lorentz transformations

 2.2 Scalars, contravariant and covariant four-vectors

 2.3 Fields

 2.4 The Levi-Civita tensor

 2.5 Time reversal and space inversion

3 The Lagrangian formulation of mechanics

 3.1 Hamilton's principle

 3.2 Conservation of energy

 3.3 Continuous systems

 3.4 A Lorentz covariant field theory

 3.5 The Klein-Gordon equation

 3.6 The energy-momentum tensor

 3.7 Complex scalar fields

4 Classical electromagnetism

 4.1 Maxwell's equations

 4.2 A Lagrangian density for electromagnetism

 4.3 Gauge transformations

 4.4 Solutions of Maxwell's equations

 4.5 Space inversion

 4.6 Charge conjugation

 4.7 Intrinsic angular momentum of the photon

 4.8 The energy density of the electromagnetic field

 4.9 Massive vector fields

5 The Dirac equation and the Dirac field

 5.1 The Dirac equation

 5.2 Lorentz transformations and Lorentz invariance

 5.3 The parity transformation

 5.4 Spinors

 5.5 The matrices γ

 5.6 Making the Lagrangian density real

6 Free space solutions of the Dirac equation

 6.1 A Dirac particle at rest

 6.2 The intrinsic spin of a Dirac particle

 6.3 Plane waves and helicity

 6.4 Negative energy solutions

 6.5 The energy and momentum of the Dirac field

 6.6 Dirac and Majorana fields

 6.7 The E ] ] m limit, neutrinos

7 Electrodynamics

 7.1 Probability density and probability current

 7.2 The Dirac equation with an electromagnetic field

 7.3 Gauge transformations and symmetry

 7.4 Charge conjugation

 7.5 The electrodynamics of a charged scalar field

 7.6 Particles at low energies and the Dirac magnetic moment

8 Quantising fields: QED

 8.1 Boson and fermion field quantisation

 8.2 Time dependence

 8.3 Perturbation theory

 8.4 Renornmalisation and renormalisable field theories

 8.5 The magnetic moment of the electron

 8.6 Quantisation in the Standard Model

9 The weak interaction: !ow energy phenomenology

 9.1 Nuclear beta decay

 9.2 Pion decay

 9.3 Conservation of lepton number

 9.4 Muon decay

 9.5The interactions of muon neutrinos with electrons

10 Symmetry breaking in model theories

 10.1 Global symmetry breaking and Goldstone bosons

 10.2 Local symmetry breaking and the Higgs boson

11 Massive gauge fields

 11.1 SU(2) symmetry

 11.2 The gauge fields

 11.3 Breaking the SU(2) symmetry

 11.4 Identification of the fields

12 The Weinberg--Salam electroweak theory for leptons

 12.1 Lepton doublets and the Weinberg-Salam theory

 12.2 Lepton coupling to the W

 12.3 Lepton coupling to the Z

 12.4 Conservation of lepton number and conservation of charge

 12.5 CP symmetry

 12.6 Mass terms in : an attempted generalisation

13 Experimental tests of the Weinberg--Salam theory

 13.1 The search for the gauge bosons

 13.2 The W bosons

 13.3 The Z boson

 13.4 The number of lepton families

 13.5 The measurement of partial widths

 13.6 Left-right production cross-section asymmetry and lepton decay asymmetry of the Z boson

14 The electromagnetic and weak interactions of quarks

 14.1 Construction of the Lagrangian density

 14.2 Quark masses and the Kobayashi-Maskawa mixing matrix

 14.3 The parameterisation of the KM matrix

 14.4 CP symmetry and the KM matrix

 14.5 The weak interaction in the low energy limit

15 The hadronic decays of the Z and W bosons

 15.1 Hadronic decays of the Z

 15.2 Asymmetry in quark production

 15.3 Hadronic decays of the W

16 The theory of strong interactions: quantum chromodynamics

 16.1 A local SU(3) gauge theory

 16.2 Colour gauge transformations on baryons and mesons

 16.3 Lattice QCD and asymptotic freedom

 16.4 The quark-antiquark interaction at short distances

 16.5 The conservation of quarks

 16.6 Isospin symmetry

 16.7 Chiral symmetry

17 Quantum chromodynamics: calculations

 17.1 Lattice QCD and confinement

 17.2 Lattice QCD and hadrons

 17.3 Perturbative QCD and deep inelastic scattering

 17.4 Perturbative QCD and e+e- collider physics

18 The Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix

 18.1 Leptonic weak decays of hadrons

 18.2 |Vud| andnuclear 13 decay

 18.3 More leptonic decays

 18.4 CP symmetry violation in neutral kaon decays

 18.5 B meson decays and Bo, Bo mixing

 18.6 The CPTtheorem

19 Neutrino masses and mixing

 19.1 Neutrino masses

 19.2 The weak currents

 19.3 Neutrino oscillations

 19.4 The MSW effect

 19.5 Neutrino masses and the Standard Moael

 19.6 Parameterisation of U

 19.7 Lepton number conservation

 19.8 Sterile neutrinos

20 Neutrino masses and mixing: experimental results

 20.1 Introduction

 20.2 K2K

 20.3 Chooz

 20.4 KamLAND

 20.5 Atmospheric neutrinos

 20.6 Solar neutrinos

 20.7 Solar MSW effects

 20.8 Future prospects

21 Majorana neutrinos

 21.1 Majorana neutrino fields

 21.2 Majorana Lagrangian density

 21.3 Majorana field equations

 21.4 Majorana neutrinos: mixing and oscillations

 21.5 Parameterisation of U

 21.6 Majorana neutrinos in the Standard Model

 21.7 The seesaw mechanism

 21.8 Are neutrinos Dirac or Majorana?

22 Anomalies

 22.1 The Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly

 22.2 Cancellation of anomalies in electroweak currents

 22.3 Lepton and baryon anomalies

 22.4 Gauge transformations and the topological number

 22.5 The instability of matter, and matter genesis

 Epilogue

  Reductionism complete?

 Appendix A An aide-memoire on matrices

 A.1 Definitions and notation

 A.2 Properties of n ~ n matrices

 A.3 Hermitian and unitary matrices

 A.4 A Fierz transformation

 Appendix B The groups of the Standard Model

 B.1 Definition of a group

 B.2 Rotations of the coordinate axes, and the group SO(3)

 B.3 The group SU(2)

 B.4 The group SL (2,C) and the proper Lorentz group

 B.5 Transformations of the Pauli matrices

 B.6 Spinors

 B.7 The group SU(3)

 Appendix C Annihilation and creation operators

 C.1 The simple harmonic oscillator

 C.2 An assembly of bosons

 C.3 An assembly of fermions

 Appendix D The parton model

 D.1 Elastic electron scattering from nucleons

 D.2 Inelastic electron scattering from nucleons: the parton model

 D.3 Hadronic states

 Appendix E Mass matrices and mixing

 E.1 Ko and Ko

 E.2 Bo and Bo

References

Hints to selected problems

Index