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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Over the last two decades a revolution has taken place concerning the way physicists view the fundamental processes taking place in our universe. This revolution has its basis in the belief that all fundamental interactions are associated with a particularly beautiful and poweful kind of quantum field theory-a theory of local gauge fields. This tenet of faith is termed the gauge principle. These theories certainly satisfy the criterion of beauty, and they have passed sufficient experimental tests to ensure that they are at least approximately correct for the weak, electromagentic, and strong interactions. There is even some indication that superstring theory may bring gravitation into the unified gauge fold, but this is presently far from certain.

The intent of this book is to allow a person who has little background in elementary particle physics and quantum field theory to acquire sufficient expertise to speak the language and to confront the literature in this and related disciplines.

(Extracted from the preface).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

-Preface.

-Contents.

-Part I. Quantum Field Theory.

1. Relativistic Wave Equations.
2. Canonical Quantization of Local Field Theories.
3. Perturbation Theory and Evaluation of the S-Matrix.
4. Path Integral Quantization.

-Part II. Gauge Field Theories.

5. Symmetry and Group Theory.
6. Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions.
7. Yang-Mills Fields.
8. Spontaneously Broken Symmetry and the Higgs Mechanism.
9. Standard Electroweak Model.
10. The Strong Interactions and Quantum Chromodynamics.
11. Grand Unified Theories.

-Part III. Models and Applications.

12. Models for QCD.
13. Non-Perturbative Methods in Gauge Field Theories.
14. Deconfined Quarks and Gluons.
15. Cosmology and Gauge Theories.

-Appendices.

A. Natural Units.
B. Hadronic Properties.
C. Relativistic Kinematic Variables.
D. Exercise Solutions.

-References.

-Index.