Lectures in Particle Physics

The aim of this book on particle physics is to present the theory in a simple way. The style and organization of the material is unique in that intuition is employed, not formal theory or the Monte Carlo method. This volume attempts to be more physical and less abstract than other texts without degenerating into a presentation of data without interpretation. This book is based on four courses of lectures conducted at Fermilab. It should prove very useful to advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Contents:Particle Properties on an Abacus:Hadron MassesHadron DecaysBeauty for Beginners:Introduction to Electroweak DecaysNonleptonic DecaysPhenomenology for CP ViolationCP Violation and Mixing“Box” Diagrams and Standard Model CalculationsCollider Physics on an Abacus:Point Particle Constituents and Their CouplingsScattering of Point ParticlesHadron-Hadron Production of ParticlesHadron-Hadron Scattering in the Pointlike DomainHadron Decay Kinematics and Point Particle FragmentationGravity for the Masses:The Equivalence PrincipleLinearized GravitationSchuartzchild SolutionOther SolutionsKerr SolutionRadiationNeutron StarsHawking Evaporation Readership: Graduate students in high energy physics. keywords:Hadron Spectroscopy;Beauty;Colliders;General Relativity;Hadron Decays;B Mixing;B Decays;CP Violation;Equivalence Principle;Gravitational Radiation “Lectures in Particle Physics has a number of positive features that would make it most suitable as a supplemental text in an introductory (or even advanced) course in particle physics … the development of the constituent quark model in the first section is clear and concise … The section on B physics includes an excellent summary of both the origin and present knowledge of the CKM (Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa) matrix.” Physics Today