Weak Interactions and Modern Particle Theory (Dover Books on Physics) by Howard Georgi (PDF)

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A high-level, rigorous, and technical treatment of modern particle physics, this book was written by a well-known professor at Harvard University who conducts ongoing research programs in several areas of theoretical particle physics.Introductory chapters examine Noether’s theorem, the electron, and SU (3) quark models. Subsequent chapters explore weak decays of light hadrons, effective low-momentum field theories, the transformation law for baryons, mode counting, effective field theories, and the renormalization group. Two helpful indexes review dimensional regularization and background field gauge. In addition to its value as a text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of physics, this volume also serves as a reference for professionals.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author Dr. Howard Georgi is a Professor at Harvard and conducts ongoing research programs in several areas of theoretical particle physics.

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⭐It’s somewhat distracting that the pages are bound along the wrong edge and read from what would usually be the end of the book toward the conventional start. Some of the pages are not glued to the cover, but that’s not altogether unusual for a paperback. The information is all there though, and if you’re up to the challenge of the material the unusual format is a trivial inconvenience.

⭐Probably one need to learn some QFT before come to this book, to the level that one can understand literally what the action of standard model means. I feel it is quite useful in understanding the logics of the design of standard model, and some of the low energy effective actions. A little easier to understand compared to his Lie algebra.

⭐By the time Dover published this, the book had become a classic.It starts with a hard Noether theorem for conserved current.On page 127 the books states that neutrinos should be massless.On page 27 it gives an argument for the Higgs mechanism.What has changed since 1984?The neutrino has mass and the Higgs boson hasn’t yet been found where it was predicted.Also further particles that aren’t in the standard model of physics are predicted by astronomical observations:dark matter particles and dark energy.We are faced with the idea that there may be a statistical mechanics besides the classicalbosons and leptons. None of that really changes that this book broke new ground in making available the ideas of the, then, new physics.Hawking predicted an end to physics as a result of these theories ( and was wrong). I think one of the major problems with weak field physicsis the Feynman diagrams for Z(0) And W(+/-) interactions don’tbalance energetically ( the intermediate, excited states are too large bymany powers of ten).The failure of the standard model appears to be not one of design, but of not taking enough into account. As hard as this book is or as advanced, the truth seems to be even more of Lie algebras at higher symmetries…

⭐This is not a good introductory book. If you don’t already know everything in this book before you start reading it, you won’t understand it. This book does not define the variables, explain the concepts, show diagrams, explain the equations, or help you learn. It begins with the assumption that you already know everything in the book. It is a book written by the experts for the experts. There are probably 100 people in the world who might read this book and understand it, but those would be the 100 people in the world who already understand this topic as an expert to begin with. Do not buy this book thinking that you will learn anything from it.

⭐This was too advanced for everyone except for theoretical phycicists!

⭐This book contains very advanced topics, involves a lot of examples to help us to undertand in a better way. It is a short book and very practical. Easy to read.

⭐Excellent book, but this printed version contain so many typos that I have to use Georgi’s online version after bought this flawed printed version.

⭐Excellent book! Complaint to the publisher about the small print: would have liked it better if they had used standard font size, and not made it so small (presumably to reduce the number of pages?). My suggestion is to increase the price, but use standard font size.

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