The origin of mass : elementary particles and fundamental symmetries /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Foreword; Acknowledgment; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 A Brief History of Cosmology; 3 Symmetries; 3.1 Space symmetries; 3.1.1 Translation symmetry; 3.1.2 Rotation symmetry; 3.1.3 Space inversion; 3.2 Time symmetries; 3.3 Internal symmetries; 3.4 Local or gauge symmetries; 3.4.1 Local translations; 3.4.2 Internal gauge symmetries; 4 A Problem of Mass; 4.1 Mass and the range of interactions; 4.2 Gauge interactions; 4.3 The masses of matter constituents: quarks and leptons; 4.3.1 Chirality; 4.3.2 Chirality and weak interactions; 5 Spontaneously Broken Symmetries; 5.1 Curie's theorem
- 5.2 Spontaneous symmetry breaking in classical physics5.3 Spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum physics; 5.4 Goldstone theorem; 5.5 Spontaneous symmetry breaking in the presence of gauge interactions; 6 The Standard Theory; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The electromagnetic and weak interactions; 6.3 The strong interactions; 6.4 The Standard Theory and experiment; 7 Epilogue; Appendix 1 The Elementary Particles; A1.1 Introduction; A1.2 The four interactions; A1.3 Some basic notions; A1.4 The neutrino saga; A1.5 The table of elementary particles
- A1.5.1 The elementary particles in 1932: the world is simpleA1.5.2 The elementary particles today; The disorder; The quarks; The table today; Appendix 2 From Sophus Lie to Élie Cartan; Index