Overview
- Provides a complete conceptual explanation of Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model
- For those who want to deeply understand the theory without delving into the detailed mathematics
- Delivers many surprising insights
- Richly illustrated with helpful diagrams
Part of the book series: The Frontiers Collection (FRONTCOLL)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
How can fundamental particles exist as waves in the vacuum? How can such waves have particle properties such as inertia? What is behind the notion of “virtual” particles? Why and how do particles exert forces on one another? Not least: What are forces anyway? These are some of the central questions that have intriguing answers in Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Unfortunately, these theories are highly mathematical, so that most people - even many scientists - are not able to fully grasp their meaning. This book unravels these theories in a conceptual manner, using more than 180 figures and extensive explanations and will provide the nonspecialist with great insights that are not to be found in the popular science literature.
Reviews
“This book offers a world of insight into the building blocks of our universe and the forces which govern them. … Overall a very useful introductory book for particle physicists.” (T. C. Mohan, zbMATH 1422.81007, 2019)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Wouter J.M. Schmitz, born 1970, studied physics in Amsterdam. He worked at CERN for an assignment at the Spin Muon Collaboration (SMC) and later as a summer student at a LEP experiment. He graduated at Nikhef Amsterdam in 1994. He has subsequently worked in IT and also holds an MBA degree. Today, Wouter works as a leading digital architect, retaining nonetheless a deep and informed interest in conceptual problems in physics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Particles, Fields and Forces
Book Subtitle: A Conceptual Guide to Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model
Authors: Wouter Schmitz
Series Title: The Frontiers Collection
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12878-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12878-4Published: 23 April 2019
Series ISSN: 1612-3018
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6619
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 321
Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Field Theories, String Theory, Popular Science in Physics, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics