An Introduction to Gauge Theories and Modern Particle Physics

This work presents in two volumes a comprehensive and unified treatment of modern theoretical and experimental particle physics at a level accessible to beginning research students. The emphasis throughout is on presenting underlying physical principles in a simple and intuitive way and the more sophisticated methods demanded by present day research interests are introduced in a very gradual and gentle fashion. Volume 1 covers electroweak interactions the discovery and properties of the 'new' particles the discovery of partons and the construction and predictions of the simple parton model. Volume 2 deals at some length with CP-violation but is mainly devoted to QCD and its application to 'hard' processes. A brief coverage of 'soft' hadronic physics is included. This work will provide a comprehensive reference and textbook for all graduate students and researchers interested in modern particle physics. Book Description A comprehensive treatment of modern theoretical and experimental particle physics in two volumes. From the Back Cover This series will provide a broad range of high quality books suitable for experimentalists and theorists covering all aspects of particle physics nuclear physics cosmology and the interfaces between them. Publications in the series will range from experimentally - oriented books for example on accelerators and detectors to books describing broad areas of theory and the supporting experimental data.