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Fields, Symmetries, and Quarks

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  • The book provides a simple and appealing overview of second quantisation, of symmetries and their calculation with quantum field theory, and of QED,QFD and QCD, with all facets, such as the Goldstone boson, the Higgs effect, and CP violation.
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Part of the book series: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (TMP)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
  2. Preliminaries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Units and Metric

      • Ulrich Mosel
      Pages 3-5
  3. Fundamentals of Field Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
    2. Classical Fields

      • Ulrich Mosel
      Pages 9-19
    3. Free Fields and Their Quantization

      • Ulrich Mosel
      Pages 21-53
  4. Global Symmetries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
    2. Symmetries of Meson and Baryon Systems

      • Ulrich Mosel
      Pages 57-86
    3. Quarks

      • Ulrich Mosel
      Pages 87-102
    4. Chiral Symmetry

      • Ulrich Mosel
      Pages 103-114
    5. Spontaneous Global Symmetry Breaking

      • Ulrich Mosel
      Pages 115-132
  5. Local Gauge Symmetries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
    2. Gauge Field Theories

      • Ulrich Mosel
      Pages 135-146
  6. Electroweak Interaction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
    2. Weak Interactions of Quarks and Leptons

      • Ulrich Mosel
      Pages 159-165
    3. Electroweak Interactions of Leptons

      • Ulrich Mosel
      Pages 167-185
    4. Electroweak Interactions of Quarks

      • Ulrich Mosel
      Pages 187-191
    5. CP Invariance of Electroweak Interactions

      • Ulrich Mosel
      Pages 197-206

About this book

This revised and extended edition of the book Fields, Symmetries, and Quarks, originally published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, Hamburg, 1989, contains a new chapter on electroweak interactions which has also grown out of lectures that I have given in the meantime. In addition, a number of changes, mainly in the metric used, in the discussion of the theory of strong interactions, QCD, and in the chapter on hadron physics, have been made and errors have been corrected. The motivation for this book, however, is still the same as it was 10 years ago: This is a book on quantum field theory and our present understanding of leptons and hadrons for advanced students and the non-specialists and, in particular, the experimentalists working on problems of nuclear and hadron physics. I am grateful to Dr. S. Leupold for a very careful reading of the revised manuscript, many corrections, and helpful suggestions and to C. Traxler for producing the figures and for constructive discussions.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Theoretische Physik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Giessen, Germany

    Ulrich Mosel

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Fields, Symmetries, and Quarks

  • Authors: Ulrich Mosel

  • Series Title: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03841-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-65235-9Published: 18 February 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08458-4Published: 01 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-03841-3Published: 14 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1864-5879

  • Series E-ISSN: 1864-5887

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 310

  • Additional Information: Originally published by McGraw Hill

  • Topics: Particle and Nuclear Physics

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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