{"title":"The Gluon","authors":"M. Peskin","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198812180.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812180.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes the description of the proton as a bound state of partons. After a review of the properties of parton distribution functions, it introduces the evidence for a component of the proton responsible for its binding. It introduces the model of strong interactions as mediated by a spin 1 gluon and presents the evidence for this model from event shapes in electron-positron annihilation to hadrons.","PeriodicalId":438621,"journal":{"name":"Concepts of Elementary Particle Physics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129019518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detectors of Elementary Particles","authors":"M. Peskin","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198812180.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812180.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the detection and measurement of elementary particles. It describes mechanisms of the energy loss of relativistic particles in matter and the use of those mechanisms to create tracking and calorimetric detectors. It then describes detector systems for high-energy particle colliders.","PeriodicalId":438621,"journal":{"name":"Concepts of Elementary Particle Physics","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129340295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Partons and Jets","authors":"M. Peskin","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198812180.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812180.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the predictions of Quantum Chromodynamics for event shapes in electron-positron annihilation to hadrons, and in for the evolution of parton distributions, and the comparison of these predictions to experiment. It introduces the notion of a jet of hadrons associated with a hard-scattered parton.","PeriodicalId":438621,"journal":{"name":"Concepts of Elementary Particle Physics","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114780009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Quark Model","authors":"M. Peskin","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198812180.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812180.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents the quark model of hadrons. It discusses the quark description of the quark antiquark systems of c and b quarks. It then describes the structure of the lightest mesons and baryons as bound states of u, d, and s quarks.","PeriodicalId":438621,"journal":{"name":"Concepts of Elementary Particle Physics","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122758859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"QCD at Hadron Colliders","authors":"M. Peskin","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198812180.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812180.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the properties of proton-proton collision events at high energy and the predictions of QCD. It describes the prediction of jet production in proton-proton collisions and the comparison of this prediction to experiment.","PeriodicalId":438621,"journal":{"name":"Concepts of Elementary Particle Physics","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115232009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quark Mixing Angles and Weak Decays","authors":"M. Peskin","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198812180.003.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812180.003.0018","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents the extension of the gauge theory model of the weak interaction to describe the weak interaction decays of quarks. It introduces the Cabibbo angle and the more general scheme of CKM mixing. It describes the realization of parity, CP, and time reversal symmetries in a general theory of quark mixing. Finally, it pulls all of the strands of previous chapters together to write the full set of equations of the Standard Model of particle physics.","PeriodicalId":438621,"journal":{"name":"Concepts of Elementary Particle Physics","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127229826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electron-Positron Annihilation","authors":"M. Peskin","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198812180.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812180.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter works out the theory of electron-positron annihilation to muon pairs as a model for electron-positron annihilation to quarks. It explains that this naive model provides a good description of observed properties of the process of electron-positron annihilation to hadrons.","PeriodicalId":438621,"journal":{"name":"Concepts of Elementary Particle Physics","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122044711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Symmetries of Space-Time","authors":"M. Peskin","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198812180.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812180.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses preliminary concepts needed for the book: relativity and relativistic kinematics, natural units, elements of group theory, discrete symmetries of space-time","PeriodicalId":438621,"journal":{"name":"Concepts of Elementary Particle Physics","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131845474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantum Chromodynamics","authors":"M. Peskin","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198812180.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812180.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter introduces non-Abelian gauge symmetry and the associated field equations for spin-1 particles. It proposes the gauge theory Quantum Chromodynamics as the theory of the strong interaction. It describes the property of asymptotic freedom, which explains a number of mysteries in the experimental results shown in the previous three chapters.","PeriodicalId":438621,"journal":{"name":"Concepts of Elementary Particle Physics","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114684048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Higgs Boson","authors":"Michael E. Peskin","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198812180.003.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812180.003.0021","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the Higgs boson, the spin-0 particle in the Standard Model most closely associated with its spontaneous symmetry breaking. It gives the predictions of the Standard Model for the production and decay of Higgs bosons. It describes the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider that test these predictions.","PeriodicalId":438621,"journal":{"name":"Concepts of Elementary Particle Physics","volume":"515 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116205288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}