Publisher: Westview Press
Language: English
ISBN: 0201624605
Date: 1993-01-01
Paperback: 372 pages
Format: Djvu
Description:
The typesetting and diagrams are humble, but this book delivers big. It was, for me, a superb refresher on real nuts-and-bolts particle physics. The book is a little dated: some of the unknowns, like the mass of the Top quark, are now known. Despite that, the content wears well.
It is absolutely essential to have a background in simple Legrangian (& Hamiltonian) mechanics, and an advanced undergraduate intro to quantum mechanics course already well in hand. Also necessary is advanced science/engineering math, which would have come naturally in the quantum mechanics course.
Kane leads the reader through the standard model with smoothe explication, and presents mathematical derivation of many — perhaps all — crucial predictions of the standard model. His derivations have the merit of being in greatly simplified form, after which he states the “real” answer, which is always close. Best of all, the math had no errors that I could find.
This is a great text for a first-year graduate course in particle physics
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