Physics 7360/7361 2006

Course References

(under construction - lots more to come)

Particle Physics/Standard Model

Course texts:  (See Textbook Sources for purchasing info.)

  A. Seiden, Particle Physics: A Comprehensive Introduction, 
  Addison Wesley/Pearson Education, 2005.

  I. J. R. Aitchison and A. J. G. Hey, Gauge Theories in Particle Physics
  Vol I: From Relativistic Quantum Mechanics to QED,
  CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, 2003.

  Vol II: QCD and the Electroweak Theory,
  CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, 2004.

D. Perkins, Introduction to High Energy Physics, 4th Ed,
Cambridge Univ Press, 2000.  Undergraduate level.

D. Griffiths, Introduction to Elementary Particles (Rev Ed),
Wiley, 1987.  Very good undergraduate level text.

G. Kane, Modern Elementary Particle Physics,
Addison-Wesley, 1993.  Undergraduate level.

Cheng and Li, Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle Physics,
Clarendon Press, 1984.

H. Georgi, Weak Interactions and Modern Particle Theory,
Benjamin/Cummings, 1984.

C. Quigg, Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions
Benjamin/Cummings, 1983.

F. Halzen and A. Martin, Quarks and leptons
An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics
Wiley, 1984.

Donoghue, Golowich, and Holstein, Dynamics of the Standard Model  
Cambridge Univ Press, 1992.

Faddeev and Slavnov, Gauge Fields: Introduction to Quantum Theory  
Benjamin/Cummings, 1980.

S. Pokorski, Gauge Field Theories
Cambridge Univ Press, 1987.

K. Huang, Quarks, Leptons and Gauge Fields, 2nd ed.
World Scientific, 1992.

D. Bailin and A. Love, Supersymmetric gauge field theory and string theory
Institute of Physics Pub, 1994.

D. Bailin and A. Love, Introduction to gauge field theory, Rev Ed
Institute of Physics Pub, 1993.

W. Cottingham and D. Greenwood, An introduction to the standard model of particle physics
Cambridge Univ Press, 1998.  Compact, outline form.

Particle Data Book

Summer schools: TASI, SLAC, Les Houches, Erice ...


Field Theory

R. Feynman and S. Weinberg, Elemetary Particles and the Laws of Physics,
The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures, Cambridge Univ Press, 1987.

This contains a very accessible lecture by Feynman, "The Reason for 
Antiparticles," giving an intuitive explanation for why antiparticles, as 
well as the spin-statistics theorem, are essential ingredients
in relativistic field theory.


M. Peskin and D. Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory,
Addison-Wesley, 1995.
Web Site: http://www.weber.edu/physics/qftbook/QFTbook.htm 
(contains up to date typo corrections and other info)

S. Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields (Three volumes),
Cambridge University Press, 1995 - 2000.

Bjorken and Drell, Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
McGraw-Hill, 1964.

Bjorken and Drell, Relativistic Quantum Fields
McGraw-Hill, 1965.
 
G. Sterman, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
Cambridge Univ Press, 1993.

P. Ramond, Field Theory: a Modern Primer, 2nd ed.
Addison-Wesley, 1989.

Mandl and Shaw, Quantum Field Theory
Wiley, 1993.

Bogoliubov and Shirkov, Introduction to the Theory of Quantized Fields, 3rd ed.,
Wiley, 1980.

C. Nash, Relativistic Quantum Fields  
Academic Press, 1978.

L. Ryder, Quantum Field Theory 
Cambridge Univ Press, 1985.

T. D. Lee, Particle Physics and Introduction to Field Theory
Harwood Academic, 1988.

Itzykson and Zuber, Quantum Field Theory
McGraw-Hill, 1980.

D. Atkinson, Quantum Field Theory: A Self-Contained Course
Rinton, 2003.  (There's also an associated book with problems.)

A. Zee, Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell
Princeton Univ Press, 2003.

S. Coleman, Aspects of Symmetry: Selected Erice Lectures
Cambridge Univ Press, 1988.
These are a superb collection of summer school lectures on various
advanced topics.

J. Collins, Renormalization An Introduction to Renormalization, 
the Renormalization Group and the Operator-Product Expansion
Cambridge Univ Press, 1986.



Other


many-body,nuclear,Condensed matter texts: 

 Fetter and Walecka 
 Abrikosov (sp?)
 Negele
 Amit
 Itz and Drouffe
 goldenfeld
 Zinn-Justin - QFT and critical phenom

lattice:

 creutz (both books)
 montvay
 smit

finite temp:

 kapusta

relativity, gravity:

Misner, Thorne and Wheeler

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