粒子物理概念

图书标准信息

• 作者 考夫兰（Guy D.Coughlan）、James、Ben M.Gripaios 编
• 出版社 世界图书出版公司
• 出版时间 2011-06
• 版次 3
• ISBN 9787510035104
• 定价 42.00元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 16开
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 254页
• 正文语种 英语
• 原版书名 The Ideas of Particle Physics: An Introduction for Scientists

【内容简介】

Thelastthirtyyearshaveseenanenormousadvanceinourunderstandingofthemicroscopicworld.Wenowhaveaconvincingpictureofthefundamentalstruc-tureofobservablematterintermsofcertainpoint-likeelementaryparticles.Wealsohaveacomprehensivetheorydescribingthebehaviourofandtheforcesbetweentheseelementaryparticles,whichwebelieveprovidesacompleteandcorrectdescriptionofnearlyallnon-gravitationalphysics.
Matter,soitseems,consistsofjusttwotypesofelementaryparticles:quarksandleptons.Thesearethefundamentalbuildingblocksofthematerialworld,outofwhichweourselvesaremade.Thetheorydescrib-ingthemicroscopicbehaviouroftheseparticleshas,overthepastdecadeorso,becomeknownasthe'StandardModel',providingasitdoesanaccurateaccountoftheforceofelectromagnetism,theweaknuclearforce（responsibleforradioactivedecay）,andthestrongnuclearforce（whichholdsatomicnucleitogether）.TheStandardModelhasbeenremarkablysuccessful;upuntilayearortwoagoallexperimentaltestshaveverifiedthedetailedpredictionsofthetheory.
TheStandardModelisbasedontheprincipleof'gaugesymmetry',whichassertsthatthepropertiesandinteractionsofelementaryparticlesaregovernedbycertainfundamentalsymmetriesrelatedtofamiliarconservationlaws.

【目录】

Preface
Part1Introduction
1Matterandlight
2Specialrelativity
3Quantummechanics
4Relativisticquantumtheory

Part2Basicparticlephysics
5Thefundamentalforces
6Symmetryinthemicroworld
7Mesons
8Strangeparticles

Part3Stronginteractionphysics
9Resonanceparticles
10SU（3）andquarks

Part4WeakinteractionphysicsI
11Theviolationofparity
12Fermi'stheoryoftheweakinteractions
13Twoneutrinos
14NeutralkaonsandCPviolation

Part5WeakinteractionphysicsII
15Thecurrent-currenttheoryoftheweakinteractions
16Anexampleleptonicprocess:electron-neutrinoscattering
17Theweakinteractionsofhadrons
18TheWboson

Part6Gaugetheoryoftheweakinteractions
19Motivationforthetheory
20Gaugetheory
21Spontaneoussymmetrybreaking
22TheGlashow-Weinberg-Salammodel
23Consequencesofthemodel
24ThehuntfortheW,Z0bosons

Part7Deepinelasticscattering
25Deepinelasticprocesses
26Electron-nucleonscattering
27Thedeepinelasticmicroscope
28Neutrino-nucleonscattering
29Thequarkmodelofthestructurefunctions

Part8Quantumchromodynamics-thetheoryofquarks
30Colouredquarks
31Colourgaugetheory
32Asymptoticfreedom
33Quarkconfinement

Part9Electron-positroncollisions
34Probingthevacuum
35Quarksandcharm
36Anothergeneration

Part10TheStandardModelandbeyond
37TheStandardModelofparticlephysics
38PrecisiontestsoftheStandardModel
39FlavourmixingandCPviolationrevisited
40ThehuntfortheHiggsboson
41Neutrinomassesandmixing
42IstherephysicsbeyondtheStandardModel？
43Grandunification
44Supersymmetry
45Particlephysicsandcosmology
46Superstrings

Appendices
1Unitsandconstants
2Glossary
3Listofsymbols
4Bibliography
5Elementaryparticledata
Nameindex
Subjectindex