Particles, Fields and Forces A Conceptual Guide to Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model /

• Main Author: Schmitz, Wouter (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: The Frontiers Collection,
• Subjects: Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Physics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.; Popular Science in Physics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

How can fundamental particles exist as waves in the vacuum? How can such waves have particle properties such as inertia? What is behind the notion of "virtual" particles? Why and how do particles exert forces on one another? Not least: What are forces anyway? These are some of the central...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Particles or waves?
• Fields
• What is a particle if it is a wave?
• A matter of energy exchange
• A wave of relativity
• Quantization of fields
• Energy in waves and fields
• Symmetry and the origin of force
• Propagators and virtual particles
• Renormalisation of fearful infinities
• Spin makes up bosons and fermions
• Conservation of charge and particle number
• Particle zoo
• Electroweak force in the early universe
• The breaking of the world will never be the same
• The strong force: Quantum Chromo Dynamics
• Gravity as a field
• Further reading
• References and sources.