An introduction to relativistic processes and the standard model of electroweak interactions

• Main Authors: Becchi, Carlo M. (Author), Ridolfi, Giovanni (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
• Series: UNITEXT,
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Quantum physics.; Nuclear physics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Quantum Physics.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.

These notes are designed as a guide-line for a course in Elementary Particle Physics for undergraduate students. The purpose is providing a rigorous and self-contained presentation of the theoretical framework and of the phenomenological aspects of the physics of interactions among fundamental const...

Table of Contents:

• Relativistic field theory
• Scattering theory
• Feynman diagrams
• Spinor fields
• Gauge symmetries
• The standard model
• Spontaneous breaking of the gauge symmetry
• Breaking of accidental symmetries
• Summary
• Applications
• Neutrino masses and mixing.