INTRODUCTION TO ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS HOW DO YOU PRODUCE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES? HOW DO YOU DETECT ELEMENTARY PARTICLES? UNITS REFERENCES AND NOTES HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES 1 L THE CLASSICAL ERA (1 897-1 932) 12 THE PHOTON (1900-1924) 13 MESONS (1 934-1 947) 14 ANTIPARTICLES (1930-1 956) 15 NEUTRINOS (1930-1962) 16 STRANGE PARTICLES (1947-1960) 17 THE EIGHTFOLD WAY (1 961-1 964) 18 THE QUARK MODEL (1964) 19 THE NOVEMBER REVOLUTION AND ITS AFTERMATH (1974-1983) 11 0 INTERMEDIATE VECTOR BOSONS (1 983) 11 1 THE STANDARD MODEL (1978-?) PROBLEMS ELEMENTARY PARTICLE DYNAMICS 21 THE FOUR FORCES 22 QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS (QED) 23 QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS (QCD) 24 WEAK INTERACTIONS 25 DECAYS AND CONSERVATION LAWS 26 UNIFICATION SCHIEMES LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS FOUR-VECTORS ENERGY AND MOMENTUM COLLISIONS EXAMPLES AND APPLICATIONS SYMMETRIES, GROUPS, AND CONSERVATION LAWS SPIN AND ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM ADDITION OF ANGULAR MOMENTA SPIN FLAVOR SYMMETRIES PARITY CHARGE CONJUGATION CP VIOLATION TIME REVERSAL AND THE TCP THEOREM REFERENCES AND NOTES THE SCHRODINGER EQUATION FOR A CENTRAL POTENTIAL THE HYDROGEN ATOM FINE STRUCTURE THE LAMB SHIFT 55 HYPERFINE STRUCTURE POSITRONIUM QUARKONIUM LIGHT QUARK MESONS BARYONS 510 BARYON MASSES AND MAGNETIC MOMENTS THE FEYNMAN CALCULUS LIFETIMES AND CROSS SECTIONS THE GOLDEN RULE THE FEYNMAN RULES FOR A TOY THEORY LIFETIME OF THEA SCATTERING HIGHER-ORDER DIAGRAMS THE DIRAC EQUATION SOLUTIONS TO THE DIRAC EQUATION BILINEAR COVARIANTS THE PHOTON THE FEYNMAN RULES FOR QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS EXAMPLES CASIMIR’S TRICK AND THE TRACE THEOREMS CROSS SECTIONS AND LIFETIMES RENORMALIZATION ELECTRON-QUARK INTERACTIONS HADRON PRODUCTION IN E’E- SCATTERING ELASTIC ELECTRON-PROTON SCATTERING INELASTIC ELECTRON-PROTON SCATTERING THE PARTON MODEL AND BJORKEN SCALING QUARK DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS FEYNMAN RULES FOR CHROMODYNAMICS THE QUARK-QUARK INTERACTION PAIR ANNIHILATION IN QCD ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM APPLICATIONS OF QCD CHARGED LEPTONIC WEAK INTERACTIONS DECAY OF THE MUON DECAY OF THE NEUTRON DECAY OF THE PION CHARGED WEAK INTERACTIONS OF QUARKS NEUTRAL WEAK INTERACTIONS ELECTROWEAK UNIFICATION LAGRANGIAN FORMULATION OF CLASSICAL PARTICLE MECHANICS LAGRANGIANS IN RELATIVISTIC FIELD THEORY LOCAL GAUGE LNVARIANCE YANG-MILLS THEORY CHROMODYNAMICS FEYNMAN RULES THE MASS TERM SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY-BREAKING THE HIGGS MECHANISM