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Chapter Contents

  1. The Particle Physicist's View of Nature

  2. Lorentz Transformations

  3. The Lagrangian Formulation of Mechanics

  4. Classical Electromagnetism

  5. The Dirac Equation and the Dirac Field

  6. Free Space Solutions of the Dirac Equation

  7. Electrodynamics

  8. Quantising Fields: QED

  9. The Weak Interaction: Low Energy Phenomenology

  10. Symmetry Breaking in Model Theories

  11. Massive Gauge Fields

  12. The Weinberg-Salam Electroweak Theory for Leptons

  13. Experimental Tests of the Weinberg-Salam Theory

  14. The Electromagnetic and Weak Interactions of Quarks

  15. The Hadronic Decays of the Z and W Bosons

  16. The Theory of Strong Interactions: Quantum Chromodynamics

  17. Quantum Chromodynamics: Calculations

  18. The Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix

  19. Anomalies

  20. Epilogue

  21. Appendix A An Aide-Mémoire on Matrices

  22. Appendix B The Groups of the Standard Model

  23. Appendix C Annihilation and Creation Operators

  24. Appendix D The Parton Model

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