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Title

Gauge theory of weak interactions / Walter Greiner, Berndt Müller ; with a foreword by D.A. Bromley.

Author

Greiner, Walter, 1935-2016.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, [1993], ©1993.

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Additional Authors

Müller, Berndt.

Description

xiv, 308 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

• Theoretical physics ; v. 5
• Greiner, Walter, 1935-2016. Theoretische Physik. English ; v. 5.

Uniform Title

Eichtheorie der schwachen Wechselwirkung. English

Alternative Title

Eichtheorie der schwachen Wechselwirkung.

Subjects

• Gauge fields (Physics)
• Weak interactions (Nuclear physics)

Note

• Translation of: Eichtheorie der schwachen Wechselwirkung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. The Discovery of the Weak Interaction. 1.1. The Universal Fermi Interaction. 1.2. The Non-Conservation of Parity -- 2. Leptonic Interactions. 2.1. The Current-Current Interaction (Charged Currents). 2.2. The Decay of the Muon. 2.3. The Lifetime of the Muon. 2.4. Parity violation in the Muon Decay. 2.5. The Michel Parameters. 2.6. The Tau Lepton -- 3. Limitations of Fermi Theory. 3.1. Neutral Currents. 3.2. Scattering of a Muon Neutrino by an Electron. 3.3. [actual symbol not reproducible] - e[superscript-]. Scattering. 3.4. High-Energy Behaviour of Neutrino-Electron Scattering. 3.5. Supplement: Scattering Formalism for Spin-1/2 Particles. 3.6. Divergences in Higher-Order Processes -- 4. The Salam-Weinberg Theory. 4.1. The Higgs Mechanism. 4.2. The Yang-Mills Field. 4.3. The Feynman Rules of Yang-Mills Theory. 4.4. The Glashow-Salam-Weinberg Model of Leptons. 4.5. Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: The Higgs Sector. 4.6. Hidden SU(2) x U(1) Gauge Invariance.
• 5. Some Properties of the Salam-Weinberg Theory of Leptons. 5.1. Decay of the Charged Vector Boson W[superscript -]. 5.2. The Process [actual symbol not reproducible]. 5.3. High-Energy Behaviour of the GSW Theory -- 6. Semi-Leptonic Interactions of Hadrons. 6.1. The World of Hadrons. 6.2. Phenomenology of Decays of Hadrons. 6.3. Weak Interactions of Quarks. 6.4. Cabibbo's Theory of Flavour Mixing -- 7. Nuclear Beta Decay. 7.1. The MIT Bag Model. 7.2. Beta Decay of the Neutron. 7.3. Nuclear Beta Decay. 7.4. Properties of Allowed Beta Decays -- 8. The Neutral Kaon System. 8.1. The Particles K[subscript S] and K[subscript L]. 8.2. CP Violation -- 9. Unified Gauge Theories. 9.1. Introduction: The Symmetry Group SU(5). 9.2. Embedding SU(3)[subscript c] X SU(2)[subscript L] X U(1) into SU(5). 9.3. The SU(5) Gauge Theory. 9.4. Spontaneous Breaking of the SU(5) Symmetry. 9.5. Determination of the Scale of SU(5) Symmetry Breaking. 9.6. Proton Decay. 9.7. Outlook: Extensions of the Standard Model.
• App. A. Conventions and "Natural" Units -- App. B. The Dirac Equation -- App. C. Feynman Rules -- App. D. Symmetry Transformations.

ISBN

• 3540561765 (Berlin : acid-free paper)
• 0387561765 (New York : acid-free paper)
• 3540561749 (Berlin : pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 0387561749 (New York : pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

93023380

OCLC

ocm28722441

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries