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Introduction to the Physics of Electroweak Interactions
- 1st Edition - December 22, 2013
- Author: S. M. Bilenky
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 2 1 2 7 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 5 3 6 9 - 8
Introduction to the Physics of Electroweak Interactions is a six-chapter book that first elucidates the deep-inelastic and elastic lepton scattering on nucleons (both cases of… Read more
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Request a sales quoteIntroduction to the Physics of Electroweak Interactions is a six-chapter book that first elucidates the deep-inelastic and elastic lepton scattering on nucleons (both cases of polarized and nonpolarized initial particles). Subsequent chapter presents a brief history of the construction of the phenomenological V-A weak interaction Hamiltonian. Other chapters detail the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam unified theory of weak and electromagnetic interactions; the processes in which neutrinos take part; and processes due to neutral currents, deep-inelastic neutrino-nucleon scattering, elastic neutrino-nucleon scattering, and elastic neutrino-electron scattering. This book will be useful to those who wish to master the techniques for calculating the experimentally measured quantities.
Introduction
1. Deep-inelastic electron scattering on nucleons
1.1. Cross-sections. Structure functions
1.2. Cross-sections σT and σS. The behavior of functions W1 and W2 at q2→0
1.3. Deep-inelastic scattering of polarized electrons on polarized protons
2. Elastic scattering of high-energy electrons by nucleons
2.1. Elastic electron scattering on nucleons (unpolarized particles)
2.2. Elastic scattering of polarized electrons on polarized nucleons
3. The phenomenological V-A weak interaction theory
4. The Glashow-Weinberg-Salam theory
5. Neutrino processes (charged currents)
5.1. The processes vμ(v-μ)+N→μ-(μ+)+X(structure functions, general expressions for cross-sections)
5.2. The processes vμ(v-μ)+N→μ-(μ+)+X (the parton approximation)
5.3. The quasielastic processes vμ+n→μ-+p and v-μ+p→μ++n
6. Neutral currents
6.1. The neutral current in the gauge SU(2)XU(1) theory
6.2. The processes vμ(v-μ)+N→vμ(v-μ)+X
6.3. Processes vμ(v-μ)+p→vμ-(v-μ)+p
6.4. Processes v(v-)+e→v(v-)+e
6.5. P-odd asymmetry in deep-inelastic scattering of polarized leptons on nucleons
Appendix A. Cross-section (definition, calculation)
Appendix B. The Dirac equation
Appendix C. Spin states of particles with spin ½. The density matrix of spin ½ particles
Appendix D. The Fertz transformation
Appendix E. The Feynman metric
Appendix F. The system of units h=c=1
Appendix G. Deep-inelastic scattering of polarized electrons on polarized nucleons (the parton model)
References
Index
- No. of pages: 288
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 22, 2013
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483121277
- eBook ISBN: 9781483153698
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