Particles, Fields, Quanta From Quantum Mechanics to the Standard Model of Particle Physics /

• Main Author: Ecker, Gerhard (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: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
• Subjects: Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.

This book provides an introduction to the current state of our knowledge about the structure of matter. Gerhard Ecker describes the development of modern physics from the beginning of the quantum age to the standard model of particle physics, the fundamental theory of interactions of the microcosm....

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Physics around 1900
• 3 The path to quantum mechanics
• 4 Why quantum field theory? 5 Quantum electrodynamics: prototype of a quantum field theory
• 6 The crisis of quantum field theory
• 7 From beta decay to electroweak gauge theory
• 8 Quantum chromodynamics: quantum field theory of the strong interaction
• 9 Standard Model of fundamental interactions
• 10 Beyond the Standard Model
• 11 Outlook
• Appendix A Mathematical structures, units and notation
• Appendix B Gauge and Lorentz invariance
• Appendix C Index of scientists
• Glossary
• Index.