塔利编著的《基本粒子物理学》提供了研究该领域的最前沿的知识，正在Switzerland的CERN进行的大型强子对撞机实验将在很大意义上改变我们对基础粒子物理和宇宙的理解。本书在实验和理论上的重大突破是研究生学习和科研工作者理解和解决LHC物理问题的优质教程。内容有：粒子物理简述；狄拉克方程和量子电动力学；规范原理；强子；探测器和测量；中微子振荡和CKM测量；e+e-对撞机物理；强子对撞机；Higgs物理。

Preface

1 Particle Physics: A Brief Overview

 1.1 Handedness in the Equation of Motion

 1.2 Chiral Interactions

 1.3 Fundamental Strong Interaction

 1.4 Table of Elementary Particles

 1.5 Mass and Charge

 1.6 Hypercharge Interaction of the Standard Model

 1.7 Higgs Mechanism

 1.8 Program of Study

 1.9 Exercises

 1.10 References and Further Reading

2 Dirac Equation and Quantum Electrodynamics

 2.1 Natural Units and Conversions

 2.2 Relativistic Invariance

 2.3 Pauli-Dirac Representation and Connection with Nonrelativistic QM

2.3.1 Constants of Motion

2.3.2 Velocity in Dirac Theory

 2.4 Probability Current

 2.5 Free-Particle Solutions in the Pauli-Dirac Representation

 2.6 Antiparticles

2.6.1 Charge-Conjugation Symmetry

 2.7 Lorentz Transformations

2.7.1 Lorentz Invariance of the Dirac Equation

2.7.2 Lorentz-Invariant Lagrangians and the Euler-Lagrange Equations

 2.8 Weyl Representation

2.8.1 WI Spinor Two-Component Formalism

2.8.2 Free-Particle Solutions via Lorentz Boost Transform

 2.9 Projection Operators and Completeness Relations

 2.10 Discrete Lorentz Transformations

 2.11 Covariant Form of the Electromagnetic Interaction

 2.12 Relativistic Propagator Theory

2.12.1 Source Terms: Coulomb Scattering Potential

2.12.2 Photon Propagator

2.12.3 Massive Spin-1 Propagator

 2.13 S-Matrix and Feynman Rules for QED

2.13.1 Cross Sections and Decay Rates

2.13.2 Worked Example: Mort Scattering

 2.14 Spin Statistics

 2.15 Exercises

 2.16 References and Further Reading

3 Gauge Principle

 3.1 Global Internal Symmetries

 3.2 Local Gauge Symmetries

 3.3 S U(z) and the Weak Interaction

3.3.1 Gauge Transformations of Massive Spin-1 Four-Potentials

3.3.2 Non-Abdian Four-Potentials

3.3.3 Weal and Electromagnetic Interactions

 3.4 Electroweak Gauge Interactions

 3.5 Gauge Interaction of QCD

 3.6 Structure of Elementary Matter

 3.7 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

 3.8 Higgs Mechanism

3.8.1 Minimum Single-Doublet of Complex Scalar Fields

 3.9 Glashow-Weinberg-Salam Theory of the Electroweak Interactions

 3.10 Neutral-Current Feynman Rules

 3.11 Fermion Masses and the CKM Mixing Matrix

 3.13 Neutrino Masses and the CKM Mixing Matrix

 3.13 Interaction Vertices in the Standard Model

 3.14 Higgs Mechanism and the Nambu-Goldstone Theorem

 3.15 Goldstone Boson Equivalence

3.16 Anomaly Cancellation

3.17 Exercises

3.18 References and Further Reading

4 Hadrons

 4.1 Color Antiscreening and Quark Confinement

 4.2 Light Mesons and Baryons

 4.3 Flavor Symmetry

4.3.1 Nuclear Isospin

4.3.2 Meson Wave Functions

4.3.3 Baryon Wave Functions

 4.4 Heavy Flavors, Quarkonia, and Meson Factories

 4.5 Exercises

 4.6 References and Further Reading

5 Detectors and Measurements

 5.1 Photons and Electromagnetic Calorimeters

 5.2 Electrons, Tracking, dE/dx, and Transition Radiation Detectors

 5.3 Single Hadrons, Time-of-Flight, Cherenkov Radiation,and Hadron Calorimeters

 5.4 Muons and Muon Spectrometers

 5.5 Jets and Jet Algorithms

 5.6 b-Jets and Vertex Detectors

 5.7 T-Leptons

 5.8 Missing Transverse Energy

 5.9 Neutrinos and Water Cherenkov Detectors

 5.10 Dark Matter Detectors

 5.11 Exercises

 5.12 References and Further Reading

6 Neutrino Oscillations and CKM Measurements

 6.1 Neutrino Oscillations

6.1.1 Atmospheric and Accelerator-Based Neutrino Experiments

6.1.2 Reactor Neutrino Experiments

6.1.3 Solar Neutrino Data

6.1.4 Neutrino Mass Hierarchy, Flavor Content, and Potential for CP Violation

 6.2 CKM Parameterizations and CP Violation

 6.3 Box Diagrams and the GIM Mechanism

 6.4 Neutral Meson Oscillations and CP Violation

 6.5 Constraints on the Unitarity Triangle

 6.6 Exercises

 6.7 References and Further Reading

7 e+e- Collider Physics

 7.1 Fermion Pair Production

 7.2 W Boson Decay

 7.3 Resonance Production

7.1.2 Radiative Return

 7.4 Measurement Of ALR

 7.5 Polarized z--Lepton Decays

7.5.1 Measurement of sin2Ow from I: Decays

 7.6 WW- Pair Production

 7.7 Exercises

 7.8 References and Further Reading

8 Hadron Colliders

 8.1 DreU-Yan and the Parton Model

8.1.1 Kinematic Variables and Patton Distribution Functions

 8.2 Single Boson Production

 8.3 QCD let Production

8.3.1 Single Boson+Jet

8.3.2 W+ Multijet

 8.4 Top Quark Physics

8.4.1 Pair Production

8.4.2 Electroweak Single Top Production

8.4.3. Decay Properties

8.4.4 Mass Measurement

 8.5 Trigger Rates and Thresholds

8.5.1 Multijet QCD Backgrounds

 8.6 Exercises

 8.7 References and Further Reading

9 Higgs Physics

 9.1 Pre-LEP Searches

 9.2 LEPz Era

9.2.1 Production Mechanisms at the Z Resonance

9.2.2 Low-Mass Searches

 9.3 Higgs Boson Production and Decay

9.3.1 Higgsstrahlung at an ee- Collider

9.3.2 Vector Boson Fusion at a Hadron Collider

 9.4 From LEPa to the Tevatron and LHC

 9.5 Standard Model Higgs Search

9.5.1 High-Resolution Search Channels

9.5.2 JetMET-Oriented Low-Mass Channels

9.5.3 Inclusive Dilepton Analysis

9.5.4 Boosted Dibosons from HeaW Higgs Decay

9.5.5 From 115 GeV/c2 to 1 TeV/c2

 9.6 Exercises

 9.7 References and Further Reading

Appendix: Standard Model Interactions and Their Vertex Forms

Index