Preliminaries and Tools / I: |
Introduction / 1: |
Symmetries of Space-Time / 2: |
Relativistic particle kinematics / 2.1: |
Natural units / 2.2: |
A little theory of discrete groups / 2.3: |
A little theory of continuous groups / 2.4: |
Discrete space-time symmetries / 2.5: |
Exercises |
Relativistic Wave Equations / 3: |
The Klein-Gordon equation / 3.1: |
Fields and particles / 3.2: |
Maxwell's equations / 3.3: |
The Dirac equation / 3.4: |
Relativistic normalization of states / 3.5: |
Spin and statistics / 3.6: |
The Hydrogen Atom and Positronium / 4: |
The ideal hydrogen atom / 4.1: |
Fine structure and hyperfine structure / 4.2: |
Positronium / 4.3: |
The Quark Model / 5: |
The discovery of the hadrons / 5.1: |
Charmonium / 5.2: |
The light mesons / 5.3: |
The heavy mesons / 5.4: |
The baryons / 5.5: |
Detectors of Elementary Particles / 6: |
Energy loss by ionization / 6.1: |
Electromagnetic showers / 6.2: |
Further effects of nuclear scattering / 6.3: |
Energy loss through macroscopic properties of the medium / 6.4: |
Detector systems for collider physics / 6.5: |
Tools for Calculation / 7: |
Observables in particle experiments / 7.1: |
Master formulae for partial width and cross sections / 7.2: |
Phase space / 7.3: |
Example: ¿+¿- scattering at the ¿ resonance / 7.4: |
The Strong Interaction / II: |
Electron-Positron Annihilation / 8: |
The reaction e+e- → ¿+¿- / 8.1: |
Properties of massless spin-½ fermions / 8.2: |
Evaluation of the matrix elements for e+e- → ¿+¿- / 8.3: |
Evaluation of the cross section for e+e- → ¿+¿- / 8.4: |
e+e- annihilation to hadrons / 8.5: |
Deep Inelastic Electron Scattering / 9: |
The SLAC-MIT experiment / 9.1: |
The parton model / 9.2: |
Crossing symmetry / 9.3: |
Cross section for electron-quark scattering / 9.4: |
The cross section for deep inelastic scattering / 9.5: |
Bjorken scaling / 9.6: |
The Gluon / 10: |
Measurement of parton distribution functions / 10.1: |
Photon emission in e+e- qq / 10.2: |
Three-jet events in e+e- annihilation / 10.3: |
Effects of gluon emission on pdfs / 10.4: |
Quantum Chromodynamics / 11: |
Lagrangian dynamics and gauge invariance / 11.1: |
More about Lie groups / 11.2: |
Non-Abelian gauge symmetry / 11.3: |
Formulation of QCD / 11.4: |
Gluon emission in QCD / 11.5: |
Vacuum polarization / 11.6: |
Asymptotic freedom / 11.7: |
Partons and Jets / 12: |
Altarelli-Parisi evolution of parton distribution functions / 12.1: |
The structure of jets / 12.2: |
QCD at Hadron Colliders / 13: |
Hadron scattering at low momentum transfer / 13.1: |
Hadron scattering at large momentum transfer / 13.2: |
Jet structure observables for hadron collisions / 13.3: |
The width of a jet in hadron-hadron collisions / 13.4: |
Production of the top quark / 13.5: |
Chiral Symmetry / 14: |
Symmetries of QCD with zero quark masses / 14.1: |
Spontaneous symmetry breaking / 14.2: |
Goldstone bosons / 14.3: |
Properties of ¿ mesons as Goldstone bosons / 14.4: |
The Weak Interaction / III: |
The Current-Current Model of the Weak Interaction / 15: |
Development of the V-A theory of the weak interaction / 15.1: |
Predictions of the V-A theory for leptons / 15.2: |
Predictions of the V-A theory for pion decay / 15.3: |
Predictions of the V-A theory for neutrino scattering / 15.4: |
Gauge Theories with Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking / 16: |
Field equations for a massive photon / 16.1: |
Model field equations with a non-Abelian gauge symmetry / 16.2: |
The Glashow-Salam-Weinberg electroweak model / 16.3: |
The neutral current weak interaction / 16.4: |
The W and Z Bosons / 17: |
Properties of the W boson / 17.1: |
W production in pp collisions / 17.2: |
Properties of the Z boson / 17.3: |
Precision tests of the electroweak model / 17.4: |
Quark Mixing Angles and Weak Decays / 18: |
The Cabibbo mixing angle / 18.1: |
Quark and lepton mass terms in the Standard Model / 18.2: |
Discrete space-time symmetries and the Standard Model / 18.3: |
The Standard Model of particle physics / 18.4: |
Quark mixing including heavy quarks / 18.5: |
CP Violation / 19: |
CP violation in the K0-K0 system / 19.1: |
Electric dipole moments / 19.2: |
CP violation in the B0-B0 system / 19.3: |
Neutrino Masses and Mixings / 20: |
Neutrino mass and ¿ decay / 20.1: |
Adding neutrino mass to the Standard Model / 20.2: |
Measurements of neutrino flavor mixing / 20.3: |
The Higgs Boson / 21: |
Constraints on the Higgs field from the weak interaction / 21.1: |
Expected properties of the Higgs boson / 21.2: |
Measurements of Higgs boson properties at the LHC / 21.3: |
Epilogue / IV: |
Notation / 22: |
Conversion factors and physical constants / B: |
Formulae for the creation and destruction of elementary particles / C: |
Master formulae for the computation of cross sections and partial widths / D: |
QCD formulae for hadron collisions / E: |
References |
Index |
Preliminaries and Tools / I: |
Introduction / 1: |
Symmetries of Space-Time / 2: |