Leptons and Quarks (North-Holland Personal Library) - Softcover

Okun, L. B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0444869247 ISBN 13: 9780444869241

Publisher: North Holland, 1985

Synopsis

This book comprises an introduction to the theory of the weak interaction of elementary particles. The author outlines the current situation in weak interaction theory and discusses the prospects for the coming decade. The reader is familiarized with simple theoretical techniques for the calculation of decay rates, interaction cross-sections and angular and spin correlations.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

The book "Leptons and Quarks" was first published in the early 1980s, when the program of the experimental search for the intermediate bosons W and Z and Higgs boson H was formulated. The aim and scope of the present extended edition of the book, written after the experimental discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, is to reflect the various stages of this 30+ years search. Along with the text of the first edition of "Leptons and Quarks" it contains extracts from a number of books published by World Scientific and an article from "On the concepts of vacuum and mass and the search for higgs" available from http: //www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/mpla or from http: //arxiv.org/abs/1212.1031.

The book is unique in communicating the Electroweak Theory at a basic level and in connecting the concept of Lorenz invariant mass with the concept of the Extended Standard Model, which includes gravitons as the carriers of gravitational interaction.

About this edition

• Publisher: North Holland
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0444869247
• ISBN 13: 9780444869241
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376