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1 online resource (560 pages) |
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Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology ; no. 2 |
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Cambridge monographs on particle physics, nuclear physics, and cosmology ; no. 2.
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| Note |
Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Sep 2010). |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title ; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; I Inputs to the Standard Model; I.1 Quarks and leptons ; I.2 Chiral fermions ; The massless limit; Parity, time reversal, and charge conjugation ; I.3 Symmetries and near symmetries ; Noether currents; Examples of Noether current; Approximate symmetry; I.4 Gauge symmetry ; Abelian case; Nonabelian case; Mixed case; I.5 On the fate of symmetries ; Hidden symmetry; Spontaneous symmetry breaking in the sigma model; II Interactions of the Standard Model; II. 1 Quantum Electrodynamics; U(1) gauge symmetry ; QED to one loop. |
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v. 4 The neutrinosNeutrino oscillations; Terrestial searches for neutrino mixing; Solar neutrinos; Dirac mass and Major ana mass; VI Very low energy QCD -- pions and photons; VI. 1 QCD at low energies ; Vacuum expectation values and masses; Pion leptonic decay and Fn; VI. 2 Chiral perturbation theory to one loop ; The order E4 lagrangian; The renormalization program; VI. 3 Interactions of pions and photons; The pion form factor; Rare pion processes; VI. 4 Pion-pion scattering; VI. 5 The axial anomaly and π0 -> γγ; VI. 6 The physics behind the QCD chiral lagrangian; VII Introducing kaons and etas. |
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On-shell renormalization of the electric charge Electric charge as a running coupling constant; II. 2 Quantum Chromodynamics ; SU(3) gauge symmetry; QCD to one loop; Asymptotic freedom and renormalization group; II. 3 Electroweak interactions ; Weak isospin and weak hypercharge assignments; SU(2)LXU(1)Y gauge-invariant lagrangian; Spontaneous symmetry breaking; Electroweak currents; II. 4 Fermion mixing; Diagonalization of mass matrices; Quark mixing; CP-violation and rephasing-invariants; III Symmetries and anomalie; III. 1 Symmetries of the Standard Model ; III. 2 Path integrals and symmetries. |
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The generating functionalNoether's theorem and path integrals; III. 3 The U(1) axial anomal ; Diagrammatic analysis; Path integral analysis ; III. 4 Classical scale invariance and the trace anomaly ; III. 5 Chiral anomalies and vacuum structure ; The ø-vacuum; The ø-term ; Connection with chiral rotations; IV Introduction to effective lagrangians; IV. 1 Nonlinear lagrangians and the sigma model ; Representations of the sigma model ; Representation independence; IV. 2 Integrating out heavy fields; The decoupling theorem; Integrating out heavy fields at tree level; IV. 3 The low energy expansion. |
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Expansion in energy Loops; Weinberg's power counting theorem; IV. 4 Symmetry breaking; IV. 5 PCAC; The soft-pion theorem; IV. 6 Matrix elements of currents; Matrix elements and the effective action; IV. 7 Heavy particles in effective lagrangians; IV. 8 Effective lagrangians in QED; IV. 9 Effective lagrangians as probes of new physics; V Leptons; V.1 The electron ; Breit-Fermi interaction; QED corrections; The infrared problem; V.2 The muon; Muon decay at tree-level; Photon radiative corrections; V.3 The T lepton ; Inclusive decays; Exclusive leptonic decays; Exclusive semileptonic decays. |
| Local Note |
Cambridge University Press Cambridge Open Access Books and Elements |
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Standard model (Nuclear physics)
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Electroweak interactions.
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Electroweak interactions. (OCoLC)fst00907791
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Standard model (Nuclear physics) (OCoLC)fst01131456
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Donoghue, John F.
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Golowich, Eugene.
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Holstein, Barry R.
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Cambridge University Press.
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Cambridge books online.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780521362887 |
| ISBN |
9780511524370 (ebook) |
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0511524374 (ebook) |
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9780521362887 (hardback) |
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0521362881 |
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9780521476522 (paperback) |
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0521476526 |
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