Leptons and Quarks

The book “Leptons and Quarks” was first published in the early 1980s, when the program of the experimental search for the intermediate bosons W and Z and Higgs boson H was formulated. The aim and scope of the present extended edition of the book, written after the experimental discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, is to reflect the various stages of this 30+ years search. Along with the text of the first edition of “Leptons and Quarks” it contains extracts from a number of books published by World Scientific and an article from “On the concepts of vacuum and mass and the search for higgs” available from http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/mpla or from http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1031.
The book is unique in communicating the Electroweak Theory at a basic level and in connecting the concept of Lorenz invariant mass with the concept of the Extended Standard Model, which includes gravitons as the carriers of gravitational interaction.
Contents:

Introduction
Structure of Weak Currents
Muon decay
Strangeness-Conserving Leptonic Decays of Hadrons. Properties of the Ud-Current
Leptonic Decays of Pions and Nucleons
Leptonic Decays of K-Mesons and Hyperons
Strangeness-Changing Non-Leptonic Interactions
Phenomenology of Non-Leptonic Interactions
Dynamics of Non-Leptonic Decays of Hyperons
Non-Leptonic Decays of K-Mesons
Neutral K-Mesons in Vacuum and in Matter
Violation of CP Invariance
Decays of the τ-Lepton
Decays of Charmed Particles
Weak Decays b- and t-Quarks
Neutrino–Electron Interactions
Neutrino–Nucleon Interactions
Renormalizability
Gauge Invariance
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
Standard Model of the Electroweak Interaction
Neutral Currents
Properties of Intermediate Bosons
Properties of Higgs Bosons
Grand Unification
Superunification
Particles and the Universe
Bibliography
Apendix (Some Useful Formulas)
Tables of Experimental Data



Readership: Graduate students and researchers in high energy and particle physics.