Elementary Particles and Their Interactions

Stephen P. Martin is a Professor of physics at Northern Illinois University, where he received the university's highest award for teaching excellence. A PhD graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and works on theoretical high-energy physics at the frontiers of the Standard Model of fundamental particles. James D. Wells is professor of physics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His theoretical physics research explores the origins of electroweak symmmetry breaking, dark matter, CP violation, and mass hierarchies. Professor Wells is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a recipient of an Outstanding Junior Investigator (OJI) Award from the U.S. Department of Energy, and a Sloan Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

• Introduction.- Special Relativity and Lorentz Transformations.- Relativistic Quantum Mechanics of Single Particles.- Field Theory and Lagrangians.- Quantum Electro-Dynamics (QED).- Decay Processes.- Fermi Theory of Weak Interactions.- Gauge theories.- Quantum Chromo-Dynamics (QCD).- Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking.- The Standard Electroweak Model.