Book description
Meeting the need for a coherently written and comprehensive compendium
combining field theory and particle physics for advanced students and
researchers, this book directly links the theory to the experiments. It
is clearly divided into two sections covering approaches to field theory
and the standard model, and rounded off with numerous useful appendices.
A timely volume for high energy and theoretical physicists, as well as
astronomers, graduate students and lecturers in physics.
Volume 2 concentrates on the main aspects of the Standard Model by
addressing its recent developments and future prospects. Furthermore, it
gives some thought to intriguing ideas beyond the Standard Model,
including the Higgs boson, the neutrino, the concepts of the Grand
Unified Theory and supersymmetry, axions, and cosmological developments.
Yorikiyo Nagashima is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Physics of
Osaka University, Japan. An organizer of international conferences, he
is also a member of the most important collaboration groups in his field
of expertise, including those related to neutrino research. Professor
Nagashima was the spokesman of the VENUS group, one of the major
detectors of the Japanese first collider accelerator TORISTAN, where he
served the first and second term at the start of the project. Professor
Nagashima has authored or co-authored 296 papers, some of them cited up
to 250 times.
