Elementary particles and their interactions/ Stephen P. Martin and James D. Wells

Includes bibliography and index

Introduction -- Special relativity and Lorentz transformations -- Relativistic quantum mechanics of single particles -- Field theory and Lagrangians -- Quantum electro-dynamics (QED) -- Decay processes -- Fermi theory of weak interactions -- Quantum chromo-dynamics (QCD) -- Spontaneous symmetry breaking -- The standard electroweak model -- Neutral meson mixing -- Neutrinos

This book is a comprehensive and technical introduction to Standard Model physics. Martin and Wells provide readers who have no prior knowledge of quantum field theory or particle physics a firm foundation into the fundamentals of both. The emphasis is on obtaining practical knowledge of how to calculate cross-sections and decay rates. There is no better way to understand the necessary abstract knowledge and solidify its meaning than to learn how to apply it to the computation of observables that can be measured in a laboratory.

Beginning graduate students, both experimental and theoretical, and advanced undergraduate students interested in particle physics, will find this to be an ideal one-semester textbook to begin their technical learning of elementary particle physics.