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Elementary Particles

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. H. Schopper

    1. CERN, Geneva 23, Switzerland

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  • Provides an overview of the present-day theoretical and experimental knowledge of particle physics
  • Includes a discussion of gauge theories in general, and the Standard Model in particular, unifying the forces between quarks and leptons
  • Further topics are symmetry violations, quark flavour mixing, neutrino masses, and neutrino oscillations
  • Also concepts that go beyond the Standard Model, like supersymmetry, strings, and grand unification, are introduced
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. 1 Introduction

    • Herwig Schopper
    Pages 1-3

  3. 2 Gauge Theories and the Standard Model

    • Guido Altarelli
    Pages 4-18

  4. 3 The Standard Model of Electroweak Interactions

    • Guido Altarelli
    Pages 19-51

  5. 4 QCD: The Theory of Strong Interactions

    • Guido Altarelli
    Pages 52-90

  6. 5 QCD on the Lattice

    • Hartmut Wittig
    Pages 91-165

  7. 6 Experimental Precision Tests for the Electroweak Standard Model

    • Martin W. Grünewald
    Pages 166-224

  8. 7 Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions and the QCD Matter Phase Diagram

    • Reinhard Stock
    Pages 225-315

  9. 8 Beyond the Standard Model

    • Eliezer Rabinovici
    Pages 316-359

  10. 9 Particle Cosmology

    • Dominik J. Schwarz
    Pages 360-402

  11. 10.1 Introduction

    • Konrad Kleinknecht
    Pages 403-405

  12. 10.2 Discrete Symmetries

    • Konrad Kleinknecht
    Pages 406-413

  13. 10.3 Mixing and Decay of Neutral Flavoured Mesons

    • Konrad Kleinknecht
    Pages 414-421

  14. 10.4 Models of CP Violation

    • Konrad Kleinknecht
    Pages 422-426

  15. 10.5 The Neutral K Meson System

    • Konrad Kleinknecht
    Pages 427-454

  16. 10.6 The Neutral B Meson System

    • Konrad Kleinknecht
    Pages 455-472

  17. 10.7 Weak quark mixing and the CKM matrix

    • Konrad Kleinknecht
    Pages 473-481

  18. 10.8 Conclusion

    • Konrad Kleinknecht
    Pages 482-483

  19. 11.1 Overview of Neutrino Physics

    • Masatoshi Koshiba
    Pages 484-491

  20. 11.2 Solar Neutrinos

    • Masayuki Nakahata
    Pages 492-504
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About this book

The Landoldt-Börnstein Data Collection has become known as a compilation of numerical data and functional relations. However, already in the past some volumes have been published which went beyond that objective and provided a more comprehensive summary of a special field. In agreement with the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Werner Martienssen, Volume I/21 will be a further step in extending the purpose and in modernizing the Landoldt-Börnstein Series. This volume will provide in the style of an encyclopedia a summary of the results of particle physics and the methods and instruments to obtain this information. Subvolume I/21A reports on the present state of theoretical and experimental knowledge in particle physics. In Subvolume I/21B detectors and data handling will be covered and Subvolume I/21C will be devoted to the technology of accelerators and colliders. The time to give a summary of elementary particle physics seems to be appropriate. The results of the electron-positron collider LEPat CERN have been fully analyzed and also the data of the other facilities in operation (e.g. TEVATRON and "Beauty-factories") have achieved a certain maturity. It will take several years before new data from the LHC starting operation in 2008 will become available to indicate new ways beyond the well established "Standard Model of Particle Physics". Of course, results from n- accelerator physics continue to come in and the most recent results are reported. Since particle physics and cosmology become ever more intertwined one chapter is devoted to this topic.

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  • CERN, Geneva 23, Switzerland

    H. Schopper

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