The Standard Model and Beyond
Paul LangackerEmeritus Professor of Physics (University of Pennsylvania)
Published December 2009 by the CRC Press.
Second edition, published June 2017.
Section update: Section 7.5, The Higgs, updated December 25, 2014.
Section update: Section 7.7, Neutrino Mass and Mixing, updated December 17, 2014.
Table of contents and Preface.
Websites,
listed in Bibliography.
Additions, corrections, typos, and comments.
Suggestions for use as text in one-semester course.
Syllabus,
introductory lecture,
lecture notes, and
problem sets/exams,
from a one semester course at Princeton, spring 2011-2013.
Videos and PDFs of 15 lectures on the Standard Model given in the 2013-2014 PSI program at Perimeter Institute.
Mathematica notebook
matrixelements
for explicit calculation of gamma matrices, spinors, and simple amplitudes
and distributions.
Notebook illustrating use of the FeynCalc package
for calculations of amplitudes, cross sections, and identities. Current version: FeynCalc 9 with Mathematica 10, 11, 12:
newfeyncalcexample
Old version for FeynCalc 6,
Mathematica 7: feyncalcexample
Clebsch Gordon coefficients, from the Particle Data Group. Answers to selected problems, chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Colloquium-level monograph, Can the Laws of Physics be Unified?, Princeton University Press, 2017. Please send comments, corrections, and typographical errors to pgl@upenn.edu.
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