Preface |
Introduction / 1: |
Strong, electromagnetic and weak interactions / 1.1: |
The light leptons / 1.2: |
The light quarks / 1.3: |
Heavy quarks and leptons / 1.4: |
Forces and particle exchange / 1.5: |
The electroweak gauge bosons / 1.6: |
The strong gauge bosons / 1.7: |
Summary on interactions and symmetries / 1.8: |
Towards a quantum field theory / 2: |
The building blocks of quantum field theory / 2.1: |
Non-relativistic quantum mechanics / 2.2: |
Special relativity / 2.3: |
Angular momentum / 2.4: |
Group theory / 2.5: |
Wave equations, propagators and fields / 3: |
Spin 0 particles / 3.1: |
Spin 1/2 particles / 3.2: |
Spin 1 particles / 3.3: |
Quantum electrodynamics / 4: |
Scattering of an electron in a Coulomb field / 4.1: |
Electron-proton scattering / 4.2: |
Electron-electron and electron-positron interactions / 4.3: |
Compton scattering, [small gamma] + e[superscript -] [right arrow] [small gamma] + e[superscript -] / 4.4: |
Bremsstrahlung and pair production / 4.5: |
Electron polarisation effects / 4.6: |
Lagrangian for electromagnetic interactions / 4.7: |
Interactions of scalar particles / 4.8: |
Higher orders, divergences and renormalisation / 4.9: |
From Fermi theory to the standard model / 5: |
Beta decay and the V -- A interaction / 5.1: |
Charm and the Glashow, Iliopoulos and Maiani (GIM) mechanism / 5.2: |
Incorporating neutral currents / 5.3: |
Local gauge symmetries / 5.4: |
Spontaneous symmetry breaking / 5.5: |
Purely leptonic interactions / 6: |
Muon decay and related processes / 6.1: |
Neutrino and antineutrino electron scattering / 6.2: |
The electroweak reaction e[superscript +]e[subscript -][right arrow]ff / 6.3: |
Deep inelastic scattering and quantum chromodynamics / 7: |
Elastic charged lepton-nucleon scattering / 7.1: |
Deep inelastic charged lepton-nucleon scattering / 7.2: |
The quark-parton model / 7.3: |
Polarisation effects in deep inelastic scattering / 7.4: |
Deep inelastic neutrino-nucleon scattering / 7.5: |
Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) / 7.6: |
QCD and deep inelastic scattering / 7.7: |
Total cross-section for e[superscript +]e[superscript -] [right arrow] hadrons / 7.8: |
Hadronisation / 7.9: |
Fragmentation functions / 7.10: |
Hadron-hadron scattering / 7.11: |
Structure function of the photon / 7.12: |
Determination of [alpha][subscript s] / 7.13: |
Weak hadronic currents, electroweak interference effects / 8: |
Decays of mesons containing light quarks / 8.1: |
Semileptonic decays of light baryons / 8.2: |
Cabibbo theory / 8.3: |
Further properties of the currents of light quarks / 8.4: |
Hadronic weak decays / 8.5: |
Decays of hadrons containing heavy quarks / 8.6: |
Hadronic decays of [tau]-leptons / 8.7: |
Neutral currents in deep inelastic scattering / 8.8: |
Electroweak interference effects for quarks / 8.9: |
Summary of NC couplings of leptons and quarks / 8.10: |
Quark and lepton oscillations / 9: |
The neutral kaon system / 9.1: |
Mixing and CP violation in heavy quark systems / 9.2: |
Neutrino mass and oscillations / 9.3: |
The standard model and beyond / 10: |
Decay of W[superscript [plusminus]] / 10.1: |
Decay of Z[superscript 0] / 10.2: |
Production of W[superscript [plusminus]] and Z[superscript 0] / 10.3: |
Testing the standard model / 10.4: |
The missing ingredients / 10.5: |
Left-right symmetric models / 10.6: |
Grand Unified Theories / 10.7: |
Compositeness / 10.8: |
SUSY / 10.9: |
Superstrings / 10.10: |
Units / Appendix A: |
Properties of [gamma]-matrices / Appendix B: |
Cross-sections, decay rates and Feynman rules / Appendix C: |
Dirac [delta]-function / Appendix D: |
Fierz transformation / Appendix E: |
Creation and annihilation operators for a Dirac field / Appendix F: |
References |
Index |
From Fermi theory to standard model |
Appendixes |
Preface |
Introduction / 1: |
Strong, electromagnetic and weak interactions / 1.1: |