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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 14 January 2016

    • ISBN 9780198748564
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages432 pages
    • Size 244x198x22 mm
    • Weight 956 g
    • Language English
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    A core text for advanced undergraduate courses in particle physics. This book covers the required mathematical and theoretical tools required for understanding the Standard Model of particle physics. It explains the accelerator and detector physics which are needed for the experiments that underpin the Standard Model.

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    This text gives an introduction to particle physics at a level accessible to advanced undergraduate students. It is based on lectures given to 4th year physics students over a number of years, and reflects the feedback from the students. The aim is to explain the theoretical and experimental basis of the Standard Model (SM) of Particle Physics with the simplest mathematical treatment possible. All the experimental discoveries that led to the understanding of the SM relied on particle detectors and most of them required advanced particle accelerators. A unique feature of this book is that it gives a serious introduction to the fundamental accelerator and detector physics, which is currently only available in advanced graduate textbooks. The mathematical tools that are required such as group theory are covered in one chapter. A modern treatment of the Dirac equation is given in which the free particle Dirac equation is seen as being equivalent to the Lorentz transformation. The idea of generating the SM interactions from fundamental gauge symmetries is explained.

    The core of the book covers the SM. The tools developed are used to explain its theoretical basis and a clear discussion is given of the critical experimental evidence which underpins it. A thorough account is given of quark flavour and neutrino oscillations based on published experimental results, including some from running experiments. A simple introduction to the Higgs sector of the SM is given. This explains the key idea of how spontaneous symmetry breaking can generate particle masses without violating the underlying gauge symmetry. A key feature of this book is that it gives an accessible explanation of the discovery of the Higgs boson, including the advanced statistical techniques required. The final chapter gives an introduction to LHC physics beyond the standard model and the techniques used in searches for new physics. There is an outline of the shortcomings of the SM and a discussion of possible solutions and future experiments to resolve these outstanding questions.

    For updates, new results, useful links as well as corrections to errata in this book, please see the book website maintained by the authors: https://pplhcera.physics.ox.ac.uk/

    This volume has the potential to bring a new generation of particle physicists to the brink of current knowledge and help prepare them to go out and push the frontier.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    Mathematical Methods
    Accelerators
    Particle Detectors
    Static Quark Model
    Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
    Weak interactions
    Experimental tests of electroweak theory
    Dynamic Quarks
    Oscillations and CP violation in meson systems
    Neutrino Oscillations
    The Higgs
    LHC and BSM

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