The General Picture. Isotopic Spin and Strangeness. Yang Mills Theory. Electroweak Unification I. Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking. Electroweak Unification II. Determination of the Neutral Lepton Current. Quarks in Three Colors. Theory of Quark Mixing. Electroweak Interactions of Quarks. Digression: Violation of Isotopic Spin. Mixing and CP Violation in Neutral K, B, and D Mesons. Flavor-Changing Neutral Currents. The Search for the Higgs Boson. Appendices.
Luciano Maiani is Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Rome, La Sapienza. He is a member of the Italian Lincean Academy, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and author of more than 200 scientific publications on the theoretical physics of elementary particles. He has been president of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), president of the Italian National Council for Research (CNR), and director-general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), where he directed the crucial phases of the construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Together with S. Glashow and J. Iliopoulos, he predicted the charm quark, which forms an essential part of the unified theory of the weak and electromagnetic forces.
"Maiani’s book Electroweak Interactions provides the essential
information for a graduate student who wishes to learn about the
electroweak sector of the standard model. The treatment, by one the
key contributors to the field, is focused, physical, and
authoritative."
—R. Keith Ellis, Director, Institute for Particle Physics
Phenomenology, Durham University"This book offers an excellent
introduction to the theory of elementary particles with particular
emphasis on the electroweak sector. It will be immensely useful to
students, both experimentalists and theorists. It is also a book
that every teacher of particle physics will absolutely need.
When we teach the subject, we often make the mistake to start from
the formal aspects of gauge theories, Lie algebras, or differential
geometry. They are important and necessary, but we forget that the
student does not always understand why we need all this heavy
artillery. This book, in fact this series because the present
volume is part of a trilogy, starts the other way around: it
introduces the physical principles and the phenomenological facts
that point unambiguously to the introduction of the formal aspects
of field theory. They will be the subject of the following volume.
In the present book, experimentalists will find everything they
need to know and theorists will understand why they also need to
read the following volume.
A book for every particle physicist."
—John Iliopoulos, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris"Electroweak
Interactions by Luciano Maiani is an elegantly written
graduate-level textbook, reviewing the unification of the weak and
electromagnetic interactions that constitute the Standard Model of
particle physics. Addressed to students familiar with relativistic
quantum mechanics, it is also an excellent reference for active
high energy physics (HEP) theorists and experimentalists, as well
as teachers. It reconstructs a path that began with the connection
between nuclear isospin and weak currents and ends with predictions
for the properties of the Higgs boson, including comparisons with
the most recent measurements being carried out in LHC experiments.
Written by a major player in the field, this book is a must in a
HEP library, both private and public."
—Arturo Menchaca-Rocha, FinstP, Professor of Physics, Mexico’s
National Autonomous University, ALICE-CERN and AMS Collaborations
Member, Former President of the Mexican Academy of Sciences,
Presidential Advisor
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