Electroweak interactions

Book · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:5367924

Renton, P

The central part of the book consists of a comprehensive discussion of many scattering and decay processes involving electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions. A list of topics includes electron-proton scattering, Compton scattering, muon decay, electron-positron annihilation, photon and hadron structure functions, neutrino-nucleus scattering, Cabibbo theory, tau-lepton decays, W and Z boson decays, mixing phenomena and many others. For most processes, the author presents the appropriate Feynman diagrams, first-order matrix elements and the resulting cross sections or decay rates. The last section of Electroweak Interactions discusses some of the open or unanswered questions in the standard model, including the undiscovered top quark, the Higgs mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking and detailed tests involving radiative effects. The book concludes with a brief account of ideas that extend beyond the standard model, such as left-right symmetric models, grand unified theories, compositeness, supersymmetry and string theory.

• OSTI ID: 5367924
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
990302
BASIC INTERACTIONS
BOSONS
CABIBBO ANGLE
COMPTON EFFECT
CROSS SECTIONS
DECAY
DIAGRAMS
DOCUMENT TYPES
ELASTIC SCATTERING
ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS
ELECTRON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
ELECTRON-POSITRON INTERACTIONS
ELECTRON-PROTON INTERACTIONS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
FERMIONS
FEYNMAN DIAGRAM
FIELD THEORIES
FUNCTIONS
HADRONS
HEAVY LEPTONS
INTERACTIONS
INTERMEDIATE BOSONS
INTERMEDIATE VECTOR BOSONS
LECTURES
LEPTON-BARYON INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-HADRON INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-LEPTON INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
LEPTONS
MASSLESS PARTICLES
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MATRIX ELEMENTS
MUONS
NEUTRINO-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE DECAY
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE MODELS
PHOTONS
POSTULATED PARTICLES
SCATTERING
STANDARD MODEL
STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS
TAU PARTICLES
TOP PARTICLES
UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES
WEINBERG-SALAM GAUGE MODEL