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What is Quarks and Leptons : an Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics about?

Particle Physics is one of those branches of Physics that can be taught either at a very pedestrian, \"stamp-collecting,\" level or at the very high level of technical and mathematical sophistication. There is very little room in the middle, and therefore it is very hard to come up with a suitable textbook that will do justice to the field and yet be accessible enough for upper-level undergraduates or beginning graduate students. \"Quarks and Leptons\" is one of those textbooks, and for the most part it fills this niche rather well. However, it does use a lot of Quantum Field Theory for the derivation of some important basic results, and does so almost from the very first few pages. In the light of that this is perhaps better suited for a graduate-level course than one aimed at the undergraduates, even the more advanced ones. As a college Physics professor at a good liberal-arts college I would certainly not use it in any course that I teach. I think a much more suitable textbook for upper level undergraduates would be David Griffiths' Introduction to Elementary Particles. Another thing that may be of concern to some is a rather limited number of problems in this textbook. All of t

Author

Halzen, F. (Francis), Martin, Alan D. (Alan Douglas)

Publisher

New York : Wiley

Published

1984

Language

EN