《粒子物理概念(第3版)》是一部讲述粒子物理的入门书籍，也是沟通传统教科书和现代比较流行的在较少背景知识铺垫情况下讲述本学科的一座桥梁。经过详细的修订和更新，书中包括了许多理解粒子物理知识的现代观念。本科目知识体系的形成从量子力学，相对论开始，经过最新粒子发现进展，到现代弦论公式，系统全面，清晰易懂。书中详细描述了cern(欧洲粒子物理研究所)中的大型强子碰撞型加速装置，这使得许多非常关键的想法得以检验。这本书适用于有一定物理背景，并且想进一步学习粒子物理的专家学者，以及想要进入该领域的初步学者。本书由考夫兰著。

Preface

Part 1 Introduction

Matter and light

Special relativity

Quantum mechanics

Relativistic quantum theory

Part 2 Basic particle physics

The fundamental forces

Symmetry in the microworld

Mesons

Strange particles

Part 3 Strong interaction physics

Resonance particles

SU(3) and quarks

Part 4 Weak interaction physics Ⅰ

The violation of parity.

Fermi's theory of the weak interactions

Two neutrinos

Neutral kaons and CP violation

Part 5 Weak' interaction physics Ⅱ

The current-current theory of the weak interactions

An example leptonic process electron-neutrino scattering

The weak interactions of hadrons

The W boson

Part 6 Gauge theory of the weak interactions

Motivation for the theory

Gauge theory

Spontaneous symmetry breaking

The Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model

Consequences of the model

The hunt for the W, Z bosons

Part 7 Deep inelastic scattering

Deep inelastic processes

Electron-nucleon scattering

The deep inelastic microscope

Neutrino-nucleon scattering

The quark model of the structure

functions

Part 8 Quantum chromodynamics the theory of quarks

Coloured quarks

Colour gauge theory

Asymptotic freedom

Quark confinement

Part 9 Electron-positron collisions

Probing the vacuum

Quarks and charm

Another generation

Part 10 The Standard Model and beyond

The Standard Model of particle physics

Precision tests of the Standard Model

Flavour mixing and CP violation revisited

The hunt for the Higgs boson

Neutrino masses and mixing

Is there physics beyond the Standard Model?

Grand unification

Supersymmetry

Particle physics and cosmology

Superstrings

Appendices

Units and constants

Glossary

List of symbols

Bibliography

Elementary particle data

Name index

Subject index