This book gives a detailed account of the Standard Model, focussing on the techniques by which the model can produce information about real observed phenomena. The text opens with a pedagogic account of the theory of the Standard Model.

This book describes the practical techniques for connecting the phenomenology of particle physics with the accepted modem theory known as the 'Standard Model'.

The Standard Model of elementary particle interactions is the outstanding achievement of the past forty years of experimental and theoretical activity in particle physics. This book gives a detailed account of the Standard Model, focussing on the techniques by which the model can produce information about real observed phenomena. The text opens with a pedagogic account of the theory of the Standard Model. Introdnctions to the essential calculation techniques needed, including effective lagrangian techniques and path integral methods, are included. The major part of the text is concerned with the use of the Standard Model in the calculation of physical properties of particles. Rigorous and reliable methods (radiative corrections and nonperturbative techniques based on symmetries and anomalies) are emphasized, but other useful models (such as the quark and Skyrme models) are also described. The strong and electroweak interactions are not treated as independent threads, but rather are woven together into a unified phenomenological fabric. Many exercises and diagrams are included.

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I Inputs to the Standard Model

 1.1 Quarks and leptons

 1.2 Chiral fermions

 The massless limit

  Parity, time reversal, and charge conjugation

 1.3 Symmetries and near symmetries

  Noether currents

  Examples of Noether currents

  Approximate symmetry

 1.4 Gauge symmetry

  Abelian case

  Nonabelian case

  Mixed case

 1.5 On the fate of symmetries

  Hidden symmetry

  Spontaneous symmetry breaking in the sigma model

II Interactions ofthe Standard Model

III Symmetries and anomalies

Ⅳ Introduction to effective lagrangiRn

V Leptons

VI Very low energy QCD-pions and photons

VII Kaons and the△S=1 interaction

IX Kaon mixing and cP violation

XI Phenomenological models

XII Baryon properties

XIII Hadron spectroscopy

XIV Weak interactions of heavy quarks

XV The Higgs boson

Appendix

Reference

Index