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  title info:
    title: From Special Relativity to Feynman Diagrams
    sub title: A Course in Theoretical Particle Physics for Beginners
  name:
    name part: D'Auria, Riccardo.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Trigiante, Mario.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    edition: 2nd ed. 2016.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 601 p. 57 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book, now in its second edition, provides an introductory course on theoretical particle physics with the aim of filling the gap that exists between basic courses of classical and quantum mechanics and advanced courses of (relativistic) quantum mechanics and field theory. After a concise but comprehensive introduction to special relativity, key aspects of relativistic dynamics are covered and some elementary concepts of general relativity introduced. Basics of the theory of groups and Lie algebras are explained, with discussion of the group of rotations and the Lorentz and Poincaré groups. In addition, a concise account of representation theory and of tensor calculus is provided. Quantization of the electromagnetic field in the radiation range is fully discussed. The essentials of the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms are reviewed, proceeding from systems with a finite number of degrees of freedom and extending the discussion to fields. The final four chapters are devoted to development of the quantum field theory, ultimately introducing the graphical description of interaction processes by means of Feynman diagrams. The book will be of value for students seeking to understand the main concepts that form the basis of contemporary theoretical particle physics and also for engineers and lecturers. An Appendix on some special relativity effects is added.
  table of contents: Special Relativity -- Relativistic Dynamics -- The Equivalence Principle.- The Poincaré Group -- Maxwell Equations and Special Relativity -- Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field -- Group Representations and Lie Algebras -- Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Formalism -- Quantum Mechanics Formalism -- Relativistic Wave Equations -- Quantization of Boson and Fermion Fields -- Fields in Interaction.
  note: by Riccardo D'Auria, Mario Trigiante.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Gravitation
  subject:
    topic: Quantum physics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Elementary particles (Physics)
  subject:
    topic: Quantum field theory
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
  subject:
    topic: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Physics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  classification: QC793-793.5
  classification: QC174.45-174.52
  classification: 539.72
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: UNITEXT for Physics
  identifier: 9783319220147
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22014-7
  record info:
    record creation date: 151006
    record change date: 20151030141136.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-22014-7