Elementary Particle Physics (eBook)

Yorikiyo Nagashima is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Physics of Osaka University, Japan. An organizer of international conferences, he is also a member of the most important collaboration groups in his field of expertise, including those related to neutrino research. Professor Nagashima was the spokesman of the VENUS group, one of the major detectors of the Japanese first collider accelerator TORISTAN, where he served the first and second term at the start of the project. Professor Nagashima has authored or co-authored 296 papers, some of them cited up to 250 times.

Part I: A Field Theoretical Approach
1. Introduction
2. Particles and Fields
3. Lorentz Invariance
4. Dirac Equation
5. Field Quantization
6. Scattering Matrix
7. QED: Quantum Electrodynamics
8. Radiative Corrections and Tests of Qed
9. Symmetries
10. Path Integral : Basics
11. Path Integral Approach to Field Theory
12. Accelerator and Detector Technology
Part II: A Way to the Standard Model
13. Spectroscopy
14. The Quark Model
15. Weak Interaction
16. Neutral Kaons and CP Violation
17. Hadron Structure
18. Gauge Theories
19. Epilogue
Appendices
A. Spinor Representation
B. Coulomb gauge
C. Dirac matrix and gamma matrix traces
D. Dimensional Regularization
E. Rotation Matrix
F. C,P,T Transformation
G. SU(3), SU(N) and the Quark Model
H. Mass Matix and Decaying States