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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2022
Print publication year:
2023
Online ISBN:
9781009291507
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Book description

Uniting the usually distinct areas of particle physics and quantum field theory, gravity and general relativity, this expansive and comprehensive textbook of fundamental and theoretical physics describes the quest to consolidate the elementary particles that are the basic building blocks of nature. Designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students and abounding in worked examples and detailed derivations, as well as historical anecdotes and philosophical and methodological perspectives, this textbook provides students with a unified understanding of all matter at the fundamental level. Topics range from gauge principles, particle decay and scattering cross-sections, the Higgs mechanism and mass generation, to spacetime geometries and supersymmetry. By combining historically separate areas of study and presenting them in a logically consistent manner, students will appreciate the underlying similarities and conceptual connections across these fields. This title, first published in 2015, has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

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Contents

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  • Frontmatter
    pp i-iv
  • Dedication
    pp v-vi
  • Contents
    pp vii-x
  • Preface
    pp xi-xvi
  • Part I - Preliminaries
    pp 1-2
  • 1 - The nature of observing Nature
    pp 3-36
  • 2 - Fundamental physics: elementary particles and processes
    pp 37-80
  • Part II - The Standard Model
    pp 81-82
  • 3 - Physics in spacetime
    pp 83-126
  • 4 - The quark model: combinatorics and groups
    pp 127-164
  • 5 - Gauge symmetries and interactions
    pp 165-222
  • 6 - Non–abelian gauge symmetries and interactions
    pp 223-250
  • 7 - The Standard Model
    pp 251-290
  • Part III - Beyond the Standard Model
    pp 291-292
  • 8 - Unification: the fabric of understanding Nature
    pp 293-314
  • 9 - Gravity and the geometrization of physics
    pp 315-356
  • 10 - Supersymmetry: boson–fermion unification
    pp 357-396
  • 11 - Strings: unification of all foundations of reality
    pp 397-448
  • Part IV - Appendices
    pp 449-450
  • A - Groups: structure and notation
    pp 451-492
  • B - A lexicon
    pp 493-522
  • C - A few more details
    pp 523-532
  • References
    pp 533-550
  • Index
    pp 551-564

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