Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. – 518 p.
In the past few years a veritable revolution has taken place in the field of elementary particle physics. On the one hand a beautiful theory uniting weak und electromagnetic phenomena (the Weinberg-Salam model) has emerged und been found to be in remarkable agreement with u host of extraordinary experimental measurements, amongst which perhaps the most impressive has been the detection of neutral currents'. On the other hand there has occurred u remarkable series of experiments discoveries, beginning in 1974 with the unearthing of a vector meson resonance, the J/psi, possessing an amazingly narrow width, und continuing with the discovery of a whole series of families of resonances of this type, and of a heavy particle. Our aim, in the following is very precise we have tried to present a unified treatment of both the theoretical and experimental developments at a level which should be accessible to research students, both theoretically and experimentally inclined, during the early stages of their postgraduate training. For this reason we have tried to avoid, in so far as possible, the use of sophisticated theoretical techniques, and have striven wherever possible to find simple and physically intuitive arguments in the theoretical analysis. The reader will find that each chapter opens with a summary of its contents and contains a list of basic references. The references are not meant to be exhaustive, but will provide a launching point for the more specialized literature.
Frontispiece
Foreword
Notational conventions
Field theory nnd pre-gauge theory wenk interactions
The need for n gauge theory
Spontaneous symmetry breaking: the Goldstone theorem and the Higgs phenomenon
Unification of the weak nnd electromagnetic interactions
Extension to the hadrons
Phenomenology of semi-leptonic reiction
Experimental identification of the gauge bosons
Experimental and theoretical introduction to the new particles
The narrow vector resonances
Charm and beauty
The heavy lepton tau
Towards the parton model deep inelastic scattering
The simple parton model
The kinematical basis of the parton model
The renormalization group, gauge theories and quantum chromodynamics
Large pr hadronic phenomena
Jets in hadronic physics
Jets in e+ e- physics
Grand unification theories a brief survey
Elements of field theory and applications to QED and QCD
SU(4) quark flavour wave functions of hadrons
Note added In proof. Recent developments and new experimental data
Note added at second printing: Discovery of the W boson (?)
Analytic subsect index