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Contents
Suggested first course
Editors? Preface to the manchester physics series
Authors? Preface
Notes
1. Some basic concepts
1.1 introduction
1.2 antiparticles
1.2.1 relativistic wave equations
1.2.2 hole theory and the positron
1.3 interactions and feynman diagrams
1.3.1 basic electromagnetic processes
1.3.2 real processes
1.3.3 electron-positron pair production and annihilation
1.3.4 other processes
1.4 particle exchange
1.4.1 range of forces
1.4.2 the yukawa potential
1.4.3 the zero-range approximation
1.5 units and dimensions
problems 1
2. Leptons and the weak interaction
2.1 lepton multiplets and lepton numbers
2.1.1 electron neutrinos
2.1.2 further generations
2.2 leptonic weak interactions
2.2.1 and exchange
2.2.2 lepton decays and universality
2.3 neutrino masses and neutrino mixing
2.3.1 neutrino mixing
2.3.2 neutrino oscillations
2.3.3 neutrino masses
2.3.4 lepton numbers revisited
problems 2
3. Quarks and hadrons
3.1 quarks
3.2 general properties of hadrons
3.3 pions and nucleons
3.4 strange particles, charm and bottom
3.5 short-lived hadrons
3.6 allowed quantum numbers and exotics
problems 3
4. Experimental methods
4.1 overview
4.2 accelerators and beams
4.2.1 linear accelerators
4.2.2 cyclic accelerators
4.2.3 fixed-target machines and colliders
4.2.4 neutral and unstable particle beams
4.3 particle interactions with matter
4.3.1 short-range interactions with nuclei
4.3.2 ionization energy losses
4.3.3 radiation energy losses
4.3.4 interactions of photons in matter
4.3.5 ranges and interaction lengths
4.4 particle detectors
4.4.1 introduction
4.4.2 gas detectors
4.4.3 semiconductor detectors
4.4.4 scintillation counters
4.4.5 counters
4.4.6 calorimeters
4.5 detector systems and experiments
4.5.1 discovery of the bosons
4.5.2 some modern detector systems
problems 4
5. Space-time symmetries
5.1 translational invariance
5.2 rotational invariance
5.2.1 angular momentum conservation
5.2.2 classification of particles
5.2.3 angular momentum in the quark model
5.3 parity
5.3.1 leptons and antileptons
5.3.2 quarks and hadrons
5.3.3 parity of the charged pion
5.3.4 parity of the photon
5.4 charge conjugation
5.4.1 and ???Decays
?5.5 positronium
?5.5.1 fine structure
?5.5.2 c-parity and annihilations
?5.6 time reversal
?5.6.1 principle of detailed balance
?5.6.1 spin of the charged pion
problems 5
6. The quark model
6.1 isospin symmetry
6.1.1 isospin quantum numbers
6.1.2 allowed quantum numbers
6.1.3 an example: the sigma baryon
6.1.4 the u, d quark mass splitting
6.2 the lightest hadrons
6.2.1 the light mesons
6.2.2 the light baryons
6.2.3 baryon mass splittings
?6.2.4 baryon magnetic moments
6.3 colour
6.3.1 colour charges and confinement
?6.3.2 colour wavefunctions and the pauli principle
?6.4 charmonium and bottomium
?6.4.1 charmonium
?6.4.2 bottomium
?6.4.3 the quark-antiquark potential
problems 6
7. Qcd, jets and gluons
7.1 quantum chromodynamics
7.1.1 the strong coupling constant
?7.1.2 screening, antiscreening and asymptotic freedom
?7.1.3 the quark-gluon plasma
7.2 electron-positron annihilation
7.2.1 two-jet events
7.2.2 three-jet events
7.2.3 the total cross-section
7.3 elastic electron scattering: the size of the proton
7.3.1 static charge distributions
7.3.2 proton form factors
?7.3.3 the basic cross-section formulas
7.4 inelastic electron and muon scattering
7.4.1 bjorken scaling
7.4.2 the parton model
?7.4.3 parton distributions and scaling violations
?7.5 inelastic neutrino scattering
?7.5.1 quark identification and quark charges
problems 7
8. Weak interactions: quarks and leptons
8.1 charged current reactions
8.1.1 ?lepton interactions
8.1.2 lepton?quark symmetry
8.1.3 w-boson decays
? 8.1.4 selection rules in weak decays
8.2 the third generation
8.2.1 more quark mixing
8.2.2 properties of the top quark
8.2.3 discovery of the top quark
problems 8
9. Weak interactions: electroweak unification
9.1 neutral currents and the unified theory
9.1.1 the basic vertices
9.1.2 the unification condition and the wñ, z0 masses
9.1.3 electroweak reactions
9.1.4 formation: how many neutrinos are there?
9.2 gauge invariance and the higgs boson
9.2.1 unification and the gauge principle
9.2.2 particle masses and the higgs field
9.2.3 higgs boson decays
9.2.4 the search for the higgs boson
problems 9
10. Discrete symmetries: c, p, cp and cpt
10.1 p-violation, c-violation and cp-conservation
10.1.1 muon decay symmetries
10.1.2 left-handed neutrinos and right-handed antineutrinos
10.1.3 pion and muon decays revisited
10.2 cp violation
10.2.1 cp eigenstates
10.2.2 the discovery of cp violation
?10.2.3 cp-violating decays
10.2.4 cp violation in b-decays
10.3 flavour oscillations and the cpt theorem
10.4 cp-violation in the standard model
problems 10

11. Beyond the standard model
11.1 grand unification
11.1.1 proton decay
11.2 supersymmetry
11.2.1 cp-violation and electric dipole moments
11.2.2 detection of superparticles
11.3 strings and things
11.4 particle cosmology
11.4.1 dark matter: wimps and neutrinos
11.4.2 matter-antimatter asymmetry
11.5 neutrino astronomy
11.6 dirac or majorana neutrinos?
11.6.1 the seesaw mechanism
11.6.2 neutrinoless double beta decay
problems 11
A. Relativistic kinematics
a.1 the lorentz transformation for energy and momentum
a.2 the invariant mass
a.3 transformation of the scattering angle
problems a
B. Amplitudes and cross-sections
b.1 rates and cross-sections
b.2 the total cross-section
b.3 differential cross-sections
?B.4 the scattering amplitude
?B.5 the breit-wigner formula
b.5.1 decay distributions
b.5.2 resonant cross-sections
problems b
?C. The isospin formalism
c.1 isospin operator
c.2 isospin states
c.3 isospin multiplets
c3.1 hadron states
c.4 branching ratios
c.5 spin states
problems c
?D. Gauge theories
d.1 electromagnetic interactions
d.2 gauge transformations
d.3 gauge invariance and the photon mass
d.4 the gauge principle
d.5 the higgs mechanism
d.5.1 current and charge densities
d.5.2 spin-0 bosons
d.5.3 spontaneous symmetry breaking
d.6 quantum chromodynamics
d.7 electroweak interactions
d.7.1 weak isospin
d.7.2 gauge invariance and charged currents
d.7.3 the unification condition
d.7.4 spin structure and parity violation
problems d
E. Tables of particle properties
F. Solutions to problems
References
Index