Table of Contents

1. Preliminaries.- 2. Electromagnetic Interactions Used for Detection of Charged Particles.- 3. Particle Accelerators and Detectors.- 4. Invariance, Symmetries, and Conserved Quantities.- 5. Hadron-Hadron Scattering.- 6. The Quark Model.- 7. Weak Interactions.- 8. Elastic and Inelastic Scattering.- 9. The Strong Interaction: Quantum Chromodynamics and Gluons.- 10. The Standard Model.- 11. Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: The Higgs Mechanism.- 12. Extensions of the Standard Model: Grand Unification.- 13. Physics at the Z.- 14. High-Energy Processes at Low Q2.- 15. Heavy Quark Effective Field Theory.- 16. Monopoles.

Reviews

"This book is long overdue. It is an up-to-date review of particle physics and should be considered as a prescribed text by anybody teaching an experimentally orientated course at honours level." Australian & New Zealand Physicist