Preface
Acknowledgements
Notational conventions
Note added in proof: the discovery of the top quark (?)
Note added in proof: the demise of the SSC
1 Field theory and pre-gauge theory of weak interactions
　1.1 A brief introduction to field theory
　1.2 Pre-gange theory of weak interactions
　1.3 The spin and isospin structure
　1.4 Tests of the V-A structure and 'lepton universality'
2 The need for a gauge theory
　2.1 The intermediate vector boson
　2.2 Towards a renormalizable theory
　2.3 Gauge symmetry
　2.4 Freedom to choose the gauge Preface
Acknowledgements
Notational conventions
Note added in proof: the discovery of the top quark (?)
Note added in proof: the demise of the SSC
1 Field theory and pre-gauge theory of weak interactions
　1.1 A brief introduction to field theory
　1.2 Pre-gange theory of weak interactions
　1.3 The spin and isospin structure
　1.4 Tests of the V-A structure and 'lepton universality'
2 The need for a gauge theory
　2.1 The intermediate vector boson
　2.2 Towards a renormalizable theory
　2.3 Gauge symmetry
　2.4 Freedom to choose the gauge
　2.5 Summary
3 Spontaneous symmetry breaking: the Goldstone theorem and the Higgs phenomenon
　3.1 Spontaneously broken symmetries in field theory: Goldstone's theorem
　3.2 The Higgs mechanism
　3.3 Unitarity and renormalizability
　3.4 Suwmmary
4 Construction of the standard model
　4.1 Model building (towards the standard model)
　4.2 The standard model
　4.3 Discovery of W and Z0
5 Lowest order tests of the SM in the leptonic sector
　5.1 Phenomenology of purely leptonic reactions
　5.2 A check of the minimal Higgs mechanism
　5.3 Support for the SM from hadronic collider data
　5.4 Concluding remarks
6 The Higgs boson
　6.1 Introductory remarks
　6.2 Higgs decay
　6.3 Higgs production at the Z0 mass
　6.4 Limits on the Higgs mass
　6.5 Concluding comments
7 The standard model beyond lowest order
　7.1 Radiative corrections
　7.2 Renormalization and physical parameters
　7.3 The effective fine structure constant
　7.4 The muon lifetime revisited
　7.5 Estimates of one loop corrections
　7.6 Higher order corrections
　7.7 Practical problems in testing radiative corrections
　7.8 Strategies to overcome the imprecision in Mw
　7.9 Testing the minimal Higgs mechanism
　7.10 Beyond the standard model
8 e+e- physics and the standard model
　8.1 Electron-positron storage rings
　8.2 The new e+e- colliders: TRISTAN and LEP
　8.3 e+e- physics at energies [[ Mz
　8.4 e+e- and the standard model
　8.5 LEP data near the Z0 peak
　8.6 Determination of the SM parameters of the Z0
　8.7 Neutrino counting
　8.8 Asymmetries and polarization measurements at the Z0 peak
　8.9 Conclusions
9 Extension to the hadrons; quark-lepton universality
　9.1 Charm, bottom and top
　9.2 Quark mixing
　9.3 Electroweak interaction of the quarks
　9.4 The GIM mechanism
　9.5 Colour
　9.6 Summary of the quark sector of the standard model
　9.7 Quark masses and the KM matrix
10 Phenomenology of semi-leptonic reactions
　10.1 Model independent tests
　10.2 Parity violation in electron-nucleus scattering
　10.3 Optical rotation
　10.4 Summary
11 The discovery of the narrow vector resonances
　11.1 Introduction
　11.2 The 'new' particles
　11.3 Some qualitative features of QCD
　11.4 Quark-lepton parallelism
　11.5 Flavour classification of hadrons
　11.6 The J/ψ and the OZI rule
　11.7 Experimental status of the J/ψ spectroscopy
　11.8 Properties of the J/ψ(3097) and ψ'(3685)
　11.9 Baryouic decay of J/ψ
　11.10 The T family and its experimental status
12 Hidden flavour bound states
　12.1 Quarkonium
　12.2 J/ψ decays. Calculation of the widths
　12.3 Determination of as
　12.4 Leptonic widths
　12.5 Exotics: glueballs, hybrids, etc.
　12.6 ψ'→π: a puzzle
　12.7 Conclusions
13 Open heavy flavours
　13.1 Discovery and basic properties of charm and bottom particles 　
　13.2 Charm decay
　13.3 B physics
　13.4 Production of heavy fiavours
　13.5 Heavy fiavours at LEP
　13.6 Final comments
14 The heavy lepton τ
　14.1 Introduction
　14.2 Discovery of the τ lepton
　14.3 Properties of the τ lepton
　14.4 τ decay
　14.5 The τ neutrino
　14.6 Rare τ decays
　14.7 Miscellaneous and conclusions
15 Towards the parton model deep inelastic scattering
　15.1 Electron-muon scattering
　15.2 Elastic electron-proton scattering
　15.3 Inelastic electron-nucleon scattering
　15.4 Inelastic neutrino-nucleon scattering
　15.5 Deep inelastic scattering and scaling behaviour
　15.6 Polarization effects in deep inelastic scattering
16 The quark-parton model
　16.1 The introduction of partons
　16.2 Antipartons
　16.3 Partons as quarks
　16.4 The detailed quark-parton model
　16.5 Charged lepton induced reactions for Q2 of order M2z
　16.6 Behaviour of the quark number densities as x → 0
　16.7 The missing constituents--gluons
　16.8 The parton model in polarized deep inelastic scattering
　16.9 Appendix to Chapter 16: The patton model as an impulse approximation
17 Experimental tests of the quark-parton model
　17.1 Deep inelastic scaling functions for Q2 [[ M2Z
　17.2 Neutrino cross-sections in the quark-parton model for Q2 [[M2Z
　17.3 Cross-sections in the quark-parton model for Q2 comparable with M2Z
　17.4 Application of the parton model to related processes
Appendix 1: Elements of field theory
　A1.1 Fields and creation operators
　A1.2 Parity, charge conjugation and G-parity
　A1.3 The S-matrix
Appendix 2: Feynman rules for QED, QCD and the SM
　A2.1 Relation between S-matrix and Feynman amplitude
　A2.2 QCD and QED
　A2.3 The SM
　A2.4 Some examples of Feynman amplitudes
　A2.5 Colour sums
　A2.6 The Gell-Mann SU(3) matrices
　A2.7 The Fierz reshuffle theorem
　A2.8 Dimension of matrix elements
Appendix 3: Conserved vector currents and their charges
References
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