An Introduction to Gauge Theories
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (762 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1498734510 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Following the discovery of the Higgs particle, it is welcome to have a complete discussion on the basic theoretical aspects of the most fundamental theory we know so far. This book is full of physical insights and is highly recommended."Belén Gavela, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and IFT "This is an excellent treatise written with the authority of scientists that have made ground-breaking contributions to our understanding of high energy physics. "This book on gauge theories completes a trilogy on the foundations of the Standard Theory of the fundamental interactions, but is fully self-contained. Everybody can find some food for thought here: from the graduate student to the
Written by world-leading experts in particle physics, this new book from Luciano Maiani and Omar Benhar, with contributions from the late Nicola Cabibbo, is based on Feynman’s path integrals. Key elements of gauge theories are describedFeynman diagrams, gauge-fixing, Faddeev-Popov ghostsas well as renormalization in Quantum Electrodynamics. Quarks and QCD interactions are introduced. These concepts are related to the Higgs boson and models of grand unification."… an excellent introduction to the quantum theory of gauge fields and their applications to particle physics. … It will be an excellent book for the serious student and a good reference for the professional practitioner. Let me add that, scattered through the pages, we can find occasional traces of Nicola Cabibbo's style."John Iliopoulos, CNRS-Ecole Normale Supérieure " … The volume ends with an illuminating description of the expectation generated by the recent discovery of the Higgs boson, combined with the lack of evidence for super-symmetric particles in the mass range 0.6-1 TeV."<
Sakurai Prize, the Enrico Fermi Prize, the Dirac Medal, the High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of EPS and the Bruno Pontecorvo Prize.Omar Benhar is an INFN research director and teaches gauge theories at the University of Rome, "La Sapienza". For his scientific work, he has been award