Particle Physics in the LHC era (Paperback)

Giles Barr, Robin Devenish, Roman Walczak, Tony Weidberg

  • 出版商: Oxford University
  • 出版日期: 2016-03-07
  • 售價: $1,050
  • 貴賓價: 9.8$1,029
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 432
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 0198748566
  • ISBN-13: 9780198748564
  • 相關分類: 物理學 Physics
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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.

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這本書以深入的本科生為對象,介紹了粒子物理學的基礎知識。它基於多年來給四年級物理學生的講座,並反映了學生的反饋。其目的是以最簡單的數學處理方式解釋粒子物理學標準模型(SM)的理論和實驗基礎。所有導致對SM理解的實驗發現都依賴於粒子探測器,其中大多數需要先進的粒子加速器。這本書的一個獨特之處在於它對基本加速器和探測器物理給予了嚴肅的介紹,這在目前只有高級研究生教材中才能找到。所需的數學工具,如群論,都在一章中涵蓋。該書還提供了對Dirac方程的現代處理,其中將自由粒子的Dirac方程視為洛倫茲變換的等效形式。解釋了從基本規範對稱性生成SM相互作用的想法。

該書的核心內容涵蓋了SM。使用所開發的工具來解釋其理論基礎,並對支撐其的關鍵實驗證據進行了清晰的討論。根據已發表的實驗結果,包括一些來自運行實驗的結果,對夸克味道和中微子振盪進行了詳細的介紹。對SM的希格斯部分進行了簡單的介紹。這解釋了如何通過自發對稱破缺來生成粒子質量,而不違反基礎規範對稱性的關鍵思想。該書的一個重要特點是,它以易於理解的方式解釋了希格斯玻色子的發現,包括所需的先進統計技術。最後一章介紹了超出標準模型的LHC物理和搜索新物理的技術。概述了SM的不足之處,並討論了解決這些未解問題的可能解決方案和未來實驗。