CONTENTS

I Preliminaries and Tools 1

1 Introduction 3

2 Symmetries of Space-Time 9

3 Relativistic Wave Equations 25

4 The Hydrogen Atom and Positronium 43

5 The Quark Model 55

6 Detectors of Elementary Particles 77

7 Tools for Calculation 95

II The Strong Interaction 111

8 Electron-Positron Annihilation 113

9 Deep Inelastic Electron Scattering 129

10 The Gluon 149

11 Quantum Chromodynamics 169

12 Partons and Jets 187

13 QCD at Hadron Colliders 199

14 Chiral Symmetry 217

III The Weak Interaction 231

15 The Current-Current Model of the Weak Interaction 233

16 Gauge Theories with Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking 251

17 The W and Z Bosons 265

18 Quark Mixing Angles and Weak Decays 283

19 CP Violation 295

20 Neutrino Masses and Mixings 313

21 The Higgs Boson 327

IV Epilogue 343

22 Epilogue 345

A Notation 355

B Conversion factors and physical constants 359

C Formulae for the creation and destruction of elementary

particles 361

D Master formulae for the computation of cross sections

and partial widths 363

E QCD formulae for hadron collisions 365

References 367

Index 377