Ebook: Particle physics: A comprehensive introduction

"Author Abraham Seiden brings more than 40 years of teaching and research experience to this advanced introductory particle physics text. Designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate physics students, Particle Physics: A Comprehensive Introduction provides you with the most complete and up-to-date introduction available for this dynamic discipline. Seiden focuses on the basic principles of particle physics, using recent research data to illustrate key concepts, and provides a wealth of step-by-step calculations to develop your understanding of core principles."--BOOK JACKET.  Read more... 1. The particle physics program -- 2. How to calculate amplitudes -- 3. Scattering of leptons and photons -- 4. Hadrons -- 5. Isospin and flavor SU(3), accidental symmetries -- 6. The constituent Quark model -- 7. The full color gauge theory -- 8. Weak interactions of fermions -- 9. Weak mixing phenomena -- 10. The electroweak gauge theory and symmetry breaking -- 11. Large cross section processes -- 12. Scattering with large momentum transfer -- 13. Physics at higher energies