An Introduction To Gauge Theories And The ’New Physics’ [1st ed.] 0521233755

Table of contents :
AN INTRODUCTION TO GAUGE THEORIES AND THE 'NEW PHYSICS'......Page 1
Front-Flap......Page 2
Half-Title......Page 3
Charm Production Event......Page 4
Title-Page......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Foreword......Page 13
Notational Conventions......Page 15
1.1 A brief introduction to field theory......Page 17
1.2 Pre-gauge theory weak interactions......Page 20
1.3 Some useful technical results......Page 30
2.1 The intermediate vector boson......Page 35
2.2 Towards a renormalizable theory......Page 39
2.3 Gauge symmetry......Page 41
2.5 Summary......Page 50
3 Spontaneous symmetry breaking: the Goldstone theorem and the Higgs phenomenon......Page 52
3.1 Spontaneously broken symmetries in field theory......Page 53
3.2 The Higgs mechanism (Higgs, 1964 a, b, 1966)......Page 56
3.3 Unitarity and renormalizability......Page 59
3.4 Summary......Page 60
4 Unification of the weak and
electromagnetic interactions......Page 61
4.1 The Weinberg-Salam mode......Page 62
4.2 Phenomenology of purely leptonic reactions......Page 72
5.1 Charm......Page 82
5.2 Colour......Page 88
5.3 Summary of the WS model......Page 98
6 Phenomenology of semi-leptonic
reactions......Page 100
6.1 Model independent tests......Page 101
6.2 Parity violation in electron-nucleus scattering......Page 108
6.3 Optical rotation......Page 113
6.4 Summary......Page 119
7.1 W production......Page 120
7.2 The Higgs boson......Page 125
8.1 Introduction......Page 128
8.2 The 'new' particles......Page 130
8.3 Rudiments of quantum chromodynamics (QCD)......Page 132
8.4 Quark-lepton parallelism......Page 135
8.5 Flavour-changing reactions......Page 137
8.6 SU(4) classification of mesons and baryons......Page 138
8.7 CP violation......Page 143
8.8 Electron-positron storage rings......Page 144
8.9 Physics with e + e - machines......Page 153
8.10 Angular distribution of hadrons produced in e +e - collisions......Page 162
9 The narrow vector resonances......Page 167
9.1 The OZI rule and the J/psi (3097)......Page 168
9.2 Experimental status of the J/psi spectroscopy......Page 174
9.3 Properties of the J/psi (3097) and psi' (3684)......Page 179
9.4 Charmonium......Page 190
9.5 Charmonium decay rates......Page 197
9.6 bb-bar bound states......Page 204
10.1 Discovery of charmed particles......Page 210
10.2 Charm decay......Page 217
10.3 Properties of the D and F mesons......Page 223
10.4 'Naked beauty'......Page 232
11 The heavy lepton tau......Page 233
11.1 Discovery of the tau lepton......Page 234
11.2 Properties of the tau lepton......Page 238
11.3 tau decay......Page 241
11.4 The tau neutrino......Page 243
11.5 Status of the quark-lepton spectroscopy......Page 244
12 Towards the parton model-deep inelastic scattering......Page 246
12.1 Electron-muon scattering......Page 247
12.2 Elastic electron-proton scattering......Page 251
12.3 Inelastic electron-nucleon scattering......Page 254
12.4 Inelastic neutrino-nucleon scattering......Page 261
12.5 Deep inelastic scattering and scaling behaviour......Page 266
12.6 Polarization effects in deep inelastic scattering......Page 270
13.1 The introduction of partons......Page 276
13.2 Anti-partons......Page 284
13.3 Partons as quarks......Page 286
13.4 The detailed quark-parton model......Page 289
13.5 Behaviour of scaling functions as x goes to 0......Page 307
13.6 The missing constituents-gluons......Page 308
13.7 The parton model in polarized deep inelastic scattering......Page 310
14.1 The parton model as an impulse approximation......Page 314
14.2 The parton model with Fermi motion......Page 318
14.3 Applications of the parton model to related processes......Page 325
14.4 'Wee' and 'hard' partons......Page 341
15.1 Introduction......Page 343
15.2 Parameters and physical observables in a field theory......Page 344
15.3 The idea of renormalization......Page 347
15.4 Introduction to the renormalization group......Page 352
15.5 Scaling and asymptotic freedom......Page 358
15.6 Gauge theories: QED and QCD......Page 362
15.7 The renormalization group for QCD......Page 370
15.8 Applications......Page 374
16.1 Introduction......Page 401
16.2 Hard scattering of quarks......Page 403
16.3 From quark to hadron cross-sections......Page 409
16.4 Prompt photons......Page 411
16.5 Elastic data......Page 412
16.6 Conclusions......Page 414
17.1 Generalities on hadronic jets......Page 415
17.2 Experimental evidence for towards jets......Page 418
17.3 Experimental evidence for away jets......Page 420
17.4 Trigger bias (experimental)......Page 422
17.5 Relation between jet and particle distributions......Page 426
17.6 Transverse momentum distribution of hadrons with respect to the jet axis......Page 428
17.7 Scaling in x-sub-e and longitudinal fragmentation......Page 429
17.8 More on trigger bias (theoretical) and on jet cross-sections......Page 431
17.10 Coplanarity or the transverse momentum balance between jets......Page 433
17.11 Conclusions......Page 435
18.1 General outline of e+e- jets......Page 436
18.2 SPEAR jets......Page 442
18.3 Transverse momentum distributions and jet broadening......Page 448
18.4 Planar events: evidence for three jets......Page 450
18.5 Jets in the Upsilon region......Page 453
18.6 Two-photon exchange processes (2 gamma scattering)......Page 461
19 Grand unification theoriesa brief survey......Page 464
1 Elements of field theory and applications to QED and QCD......Page 470
2 SU(4) quark flavour wave functions
of hadrons......Page 489
Recent developments and new experimental data......Page 495
References......Page 497
Analyltic Subject Index......Page 505
Back Flap......Page 516
Back Cover......Page 517

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