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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preliminary notions | |
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| Mass, energy, linear momentum | |
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| The law of motion of a particle | |
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| The mass of a system of particles, kinematic invariants | |
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| Systems of interacting particles | |
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| Natural units | |
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| Collisions and decays | |
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| Hadrons, leptons and quarks | |
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| The fundamental interactions | |
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| The passage of radiation through matter | |
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| Sources of high-energy particles | |
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| Particle detectors | |
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| Problems | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Nucleons, leptons and bosons | |
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| The muon and the pion | |
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| Strange mesons and hyperons | |
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| The quantum numbers of the charged pion | |
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| Charged leptons and neutrinos | |
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| The Dirac equation | |
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| The positron | |
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| The antiproton | |
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| Problems | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Symmetries | |
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| Symmetries | |
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| Parity | |
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| Particle-antiparticle conjugation | |
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| Time reversal and CPT | |
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| The parity of the pion | |
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| Pion decay | |
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| Quark flavours and baryonic number | |
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| Leptonic flavours and lepton number | |
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| Isospin | |
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| The sum of two isospins: the product of two representations | |
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| G-parity | |
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| Problems | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Hadrons | |
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| Resonances | |
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| The 3/2[superscript +] baryons | |
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| The Dalitz plot | |
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| Spin, parity, isospin analysis of three-pion systems | |
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| Pseudoscalar and vector mesons | |
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| The quark model | |
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| Mesons | |
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| Baryons | |
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| Charm | |
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| The third family | |
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| The elements of the Standard Model | |
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| Problems | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Quantum electrodynamics | |
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| Charge conservation and gauge symmetry | |
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| The Lamb and Retherford experiment | |
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| Quantum field theory | |
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| The interaction as an exchange of quanta | |
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| The Feynman diagrams and QED | |
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| Analyticity and the need for antiparticles | |
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| Electron-positron annihilation into a muon pair | |
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| The evolution of a | |
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| Problems | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Chromodynamics | |
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| Hadron production at electron-positron colliders | |
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| Scattering experiments | |
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| Nucleon structure | |
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| The colour charges | |
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| Colour bound states | |
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| The evolution of a[subscript s] | |
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| The origin of hadron mass | |
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| The quantum vacuum | |
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| Problems | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Weak interactions | |
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| Classification of weak interactions | |
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| Low-energy lepton processes and the Fermi constant | |
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| Parity violation | |
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| Helicity and chirality | |
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| Measurement of the helicity of leptons | |
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| Violation of the particle-antiparticle conjugation | |
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| Cabibbo mixing | |
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| The Glashow, Iliopoulos and Maiani mechanism | |
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| The quark mixing matrix | |
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| Weak neutral currents | |
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| Problems | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The neutral K and B mesons and CP violation | |
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| The states of the neutral K system | |
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| Strangeness oscillations | |
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| Regeneration | |
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| CP violation | |
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| Oscillation and CP violation in the neutral B system | |
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| CP violation in meson decays | |
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| Problems | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The Standard Model | |
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| The electroweak interaction | |
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| Structure of the weak neutral currents | |
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| Electroweak unification | |
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| Determination of the electroweak angle | |
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| The intermediate vector bosons | |
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| The UA1 experiment | |
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| The discovery of W and Z | |
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| The evolution of sin[subscript 2 theta subscript w] | |
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| Precision tests at LEP | |
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| The interaction between intermediate bosons | |
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| The search for the Higgs boson | |
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| Problems | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Beyond the Standard Model | |
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| Neutrino mixing | |
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| Neutrino oscillation | |
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| Flavour transition in matter | |
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| The experiments | |
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| Limits on neutrino mass | |
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| Challenges | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Greek alphabet | |
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| Fundamental constants | |
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| Properties of elementary particles | |
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| Clebsch-Gordan coefficients | |
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| Spherical harmonics and d-functions | |
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| Experimental and theoretical discoveries in particle physics | |
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| Solutions | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |