The main focus of the second volume of this fourth edition,as in the third,is on the two non-Abelian quantum gauge field theories of the Standard Model -that is,QCD and the electroweak theory of Glashow,Salam and Weinberg,We preserve the same division into four parts: non-Abelian symmetries,both global and local; QCD and the renormalization group; spontaneously broken symmetry; and weak interaction phenomenology and the electroweak theory.However,the book has always combined theoretical development with dis-cussion of relevant experimental results. And it is on the experimental side that most progress has been made in the ten years since the third edition appeared-first of all,in the study of CP violation in B-meson physics,and in neutrino oscillations. The inclusion of these results,and the increasing im-portance of the topics,have required some reorganization,and a new chapter (21) devoted wholly to them. We concentrate mainly on CP violation in B-meson decays,particularly on the determination of the angles of the unitarity triangle from B-meson oscillations.CP-violation in K-meson systems is also discussed. In the neutrino sector,we describe some of the principal experi-ments which have led to our current knowledge of the mass-squared differencesand the mixing angles.In discussing weak interaction phenomenology,we keep in view the possibility that neutrinos may turn out to be Majorana particles,an outcome for which we have prepared the reader in (new) chapters 4 and 7 of volume 1.
作者簡(jiǎn)介
伊恩·艾奇森 (Ian J.R. Aitchison)是英國(guó)物理學(xué)家,牛津大學(xué)教授,他也是美國(guó)SLAC國(guó)家加速器實(shí)驗(yàn)室、羅切斯特大學(xué)、華盛頓大學(xué)和歐洲核子研究中心的客座研究員/教授。他還著有《相對(duì)論量子力學(xué)》(Relativistic Quantum Mechanics),《規(guī)范場(chǎng)論入門》(An Informal Introduction to Gauge Field Theories),《粒子物理學(xué)中的超對(duì)稱性》(Supersymmetry in Particle Physics)等著作。安東尼·海伊 (Anthony J.G. Hey)是微軟研究院學(xué)術(shù)合作部副總裁,負(fù)責(zé)微軟公司的全球外部合作研究和技術(shù)計(jì)算戰(zhàn)略。他是英國(guó)皇家工程院院士,也是英國(guó)物理學(xué)會(huì)(IOP)、英國(guó)計(jì)算機(jī)學(xué)會(huì)(BCS)、國(guó)際工程技術(shù)學(xué)會(huì)(IET)和國(guó)際計(jì)算機(jī)學(xué)會(huì)(ACM)的杰出會(huì)士。