Advanced Particle Physics, Volume I: Particles, Fields, and Quabtum Electrodynamics

Abstract

The textbook consists of four Parts. The Part I covers the mathematical basis of the modern quantum field theory. The most necessary knowledge of the group theory are provided for, Noether theorem is proved and the major motion integrals to be connected with both space and internal symmetry are deduced. In the Part II fundamental interactions and the ways of their unifications are discussed. The main theoretical preconditions and experiments that allowed one to establish matter structure at the quark-lepton level are considered. In the Part III the secondary quantized theories of free fields with spin 0, 1/2 and 1 are inves-tigated. A special attention is attached to the neutrino field. The Part IV is devoted to the first successfully operating quantum field theory, the quantum electrodynamics. In this Part the methods of calculations with polarized and unpolarized particles with and without inclusion of radiative corrections are yielded.