Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics

The third edition of this successful textbook has been redesigned to reflect the progress of the field in the last decade, including the latest studies of the Higgs boson, quark-gluon plasma, progress in flavour and neutrino physics and the discovery of gravitational waves. It provides undergraduate students with complete coverage of the basic elements of the Standard Model of particle physics, assuming only introductory courses in nuclear physics, special relativity and quantum mechanics. Examples of fundamental experiments are highlighted before discussions of the theory, giving students an appreciation of how experiment and theory interplay in the development of physics. The author examines leptons, hadrons and quarks, before presenting the dynamics and the surprising properties of the charges of the different forces, concluding with a discussion on neutrino properties beyond the Standard Model. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

這本成功教科書的第三版已經重新設計，以反映過去十年來這個領域的進展，包括對希格斯玻色子、夸克膠子等的最新研究，以及在味道和中微子物理學方面的進展和引力波的發現。它為大學本科生提供了對粒子物理標準模型的基本要素的全面涵蓋，僅需具備核物理、特殊相對論和量子力學的入門課程。在討論理論之前，突出了基本實驗的例子，使學生能夠欣賞實驗和理論在物理學發展中的相互作用。作者在介紹了輕子、強子和夸克之後，提出了不同力的電荷的動力學和令人驚訝的特性，最後討論了超越標準模型的中微子特性。這本書也可以在劍橋核心平台上以開放存取的形式獲得。