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The second edition of this successful textbook is fully updated to include the discovery of the Higgs boson and other recent developments, providing undergraduate students with complete coverage of the basic elements of the standard model of particle physics for the first time. Physics is emphasised over mathematical rigour, making the material accessible to students with no previous knowledge of elementary particles. Important experiments and the theory linked to them are highlighted, helping students appreciate how key ideas were developed. The chapter on neutrino physics has been completely revised, and the final chapter summarises the limits of the standard model and introduces students to what lies beyond. Over 250 problems, including sixty that are new to this edition, encourage students to apply the theory themselves. Partial solutions to selected problems appear in the book, with full solutions and slides of all figures available at www.cambridge.org/9781107050402.

Fully updated to include the discovery of the Higgs boson, as well as other recent developments, providing undergraduate students with complete coverage of the basic elements of the standard model
Physics is emphasised over mathematical rigour, and covers important experiments and the theory linked to them, enabling students to understand the development of key ideas
Over 250 problems, sixty of which are new to this edition, help students apply the theory with a focus on physics rather than mathematics



Table of Contents
Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
1. Preliminary notions
2. Nucleons, leptons and mesons
3. Symmetries
4. Hadrons
5. Quantum electrodynamics
6. Chromodynamics
7. Weak interactions
8. The neutral mesons oscillations and CP violation
9. The standard model
10. Neutrinos
11. Epilogue
Appendixes
References
Index.