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Unique In Its Coverage Of All Aspects Of Modern Particle Physics, This Textbook Provides A Clear Connection Between The Theory And Recent Experimental Results, Including The Discovery Of The Higgs Boson At Cern. It Provides A Comprehensive And Self-contained Description Of The Standard Model Of Particle Physics Suitable For Upper-level Undergraduate Students And Graduate Students Studying Experimental Particle Physics. Physical Theory Is Introduced In A Straightforward Manner With Full Mathematical Derivations Throughout. Fully-worked Examples Enable Students To Link The Mathematical Theory To Results From Modern Particle Physics Experiments. End-of-chapter Exercises, Graded By Difficulty, Provide Students With A Deeper Understanding Of The Subject. Online Resources Available At Www.cambridge.org/mpp Feature Password-protected Fully-worked Solutions To Problems For Instructors, Numerical Solutions And Hints To The Problems For Students And Powerpoint Slides And Jpegs Of Figures From The Book. Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. Introduction; 2. Underlying Concepts; 3. Decay Rates And Cross Sections; 4. The Dirac Equation; 5. Interaction By Particle Exchange; 6. Electron-positron Annihilation; 7. Electron-proton Elastic Scattering; 8. Deep Inelastic Scattering; 9. Symmetries And The Quark Model; 10. Quantum Chromodynamics; 11. The Weak Interaction; 12. The Weak Interactions Of Leptons; 13. Neutrinos And Neutrino Oscillations; 14. Cp Violation And Weak Hadronic Interactions; 15. Electroweak Unification; 16. Tests Of The Standard Model; 17. The Higgs Boson; 18. The Standard Model And Beyond; Appendixes; References; Further Reading; Index. Mark Thomson. Title From Publisher's Bibliographic System (viewed On 29 May 2018). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English