Volume I/21A is the first in a series of handbooks on elementary particles. It provides the present state of theoretical and experimental knowledge in particle physics, just in time with the start-up of LHC which promises to settle some of the present-day issues in understanding elementary particles and the fundamental forces between them. It starts with a general representation of gauge theories and the Standard Model which unifies the strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions. The standard model of electroweak interactions, and QCD,the theory of the strong interaction, are dicussed in detail. In addition to analytic approaches to nonperturbative QCD, simulations of QCD on a discrete space-time lattice are treated. Results of experimental precision tests for theelectroweak standard model as well as of relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions (including a discussion of the QCD matter phase diagram) follow next. Provides an overview of the present-day theoretical and experimental knowledge of particle physics Includes a discussion of gauge theories in general, and the Standard Model in particular, unifying the forces between quarks and leptons Further topics are symmetry violations, quark flavour mixing, neutrino masses, and neutrino oscillations
- ISBN: 978-3-540-74202-9
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 593
- Fecha Publicación: 01/12/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés