Gauge Theories in Particle Physics, 40th Anniversary Edition

A Practical Introduction, Volume 2: Non-Abelian Gauge Theories: QCD and The Electroweak Theory, Fifth Edition

By: Ian J R Aitchison, Anthony J.G. Hey

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Hardcover | 19 June 2024 | Edition Number 5

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The fifth edition of this well-established, highly regarded two-volume set continues to provide a fundamental introduction to advanced particle physics while incorporating substantial new experimental results, especially in the areas of Higgs and top sector physics, as well as CP violation and neutrino oscillations. It offers an accessible and practical introduction to the three gauge theories comprising the Standard Model of particle physics: quantum electrodynamics (QED), quantum chromodynamics (QCD), and the Glashow-Salam-Weinberg (GSW) electroweak theory.

Volume 2 of this updated edition covers the two non-Abelian gauge theories of QCD and the GSW theory. A distinctive feature is the extended treatment of two crucial theoretical tools: spontaneous symmetry breaking and the renormalization group. The underlying physics of these is elucidated by parallel discussions of examples from condensed matter systems: superfluidity and superconductivity, and critical phenomena. This new edition includes updates to jet algorithms, lattice field theory, CP violation and the CKM matrix, and neutrino physics.

New to the fifth edition:

Tests of the Standard Model in the Higgs and top quark sectors
The naturalness problem and responses to it going beyond the Standard Model
The Standard Model as an effective field theory

Each volume should serve as a valuable handbook for students and researchers in advanced particle physics looking for an accessible introduction to the Standard Model of particle physics.

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Praise for the 4th edition

"Aitchison and Hey was the 'bible' for me as a young post-doc in the 1980s ... The book has been revised regularly as the field progressed and I am delighted to see a new edition which brings it up to date to the discovery of a Higgs-like boson at the LHC in July 2012. ... Its strength has always been the combination of the theory with discussion of experimental results. The new edition continues this tradition by including ... discussion of the related important observations of the last ten years-CP violation and oscillations in the B sector and the now rich phenomenology of neutrino oscillations. This will become a new classic."
-Amanda Cooper-Sarkar, Oxford University, UK

"This is an indispensable textbook for all particle physicists, experimentalists and theorists alike, providing an accessible expose of the Standard Model, covering the mathematics used to describe it and some of the most important experimental results which vindicate it. ... Volume 2 has been updated with extended discussions on quark and neutrino mixing and inclusion of results on CP violation and neutrino oscillations ... these textbooks will remain on the top of a high energy physicist's reading list for years to come."
-Matthew Wing, University College London, UK

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