It is very well presented and goes out of its way or rather the author goes out of his to be friendly and relatively easy, bearing in mind that elementary particle physics is, by a long shot, not. Soon came the rutherford atom and the nucleus and the bohr quantization. A fair fraction of our audience is students or the general public who are interested in learning about the field, beringer says. Radja boughezal radja boughezals research interests cover many area of particle physics, including qcd and electroweak precision observables, higgs phenomenology, and new calculational techniques for precise predictions of collider observables. It gives an extensive and precise coverage of the subjects which are addressed, in a consistent and intelligible manner. The book gives a quite complete and uptodate picture of the standard theory with an historical perspective, with a collection of. Department of theoretical physics, research school of physics and engineering, the australian national university, canberra australia 1. Group theoretical concepts methods elementary particle physics. The particle physics master course will be given in the autumn semester of 2011.
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