Standard Model Workbook

Thomas A. Moore is a professor in the physics department of Pomona College. He graduated from Carleton College in 1976, and earned an M. Phil. in 1978 and a Ph. D. in 1981 from Yale University. He then taught at Carleton College and Luther College before taking his current position at Pomona College in 1987, where he won a Wig Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1991. He served as an active member of the national Introductory University Physics Project (IUPP), and has published a number of articles about astrophysical sources of gravitational waves, detection of gravitational waves, and new approaches to teaching physics. His previous books include A Traveler's Guide to Spacetime (McGraw-Hill, 1995) on special relativity, and a six-volume introductory calculus-based physics text called Six Ideas That Shaped Physics (McGraw-Hill, 2003).

"Moore blends clear and efficient prose with well-chosen exercises that are an essential part of the exposition, helping students build both fluency with the concepts and facility with the calculations. This workbook guides the student from first steps to the sort of mastery through computation that is prized by working physicists." --William Loinaz, Amherst College

• Chapter 1. IntroductionSection I. Relativity: Chapter 2. Special Relativity; Chapter 3. Index NotationSection II. Classical Fields: Chapter 4. A Classical Scalar Field; Chapter 5. The Klein-Gordon Equation; Chapter 6. Noether’s TheoremSection III. Quantum Mechanics: Chapter 7. Basic Quantum Mechanics; Chapter 8. Operators and Time Evolution; Chapter 9. Angular Momentum; Chapter 10. Feynman Diagram Quick StartSection IV. Quantum Field Theory: Chapter 11. Creation and Annihilation Operators; Chapter 12. The Quantized Scalar Field; Chapter 13. Interactions and Feynman DiagramsSection V. Connection to Experiment: Chapter 14. Fermi’s Golden Rule; Chapter 15. Toy Universe PredictionsSection VI. Spin – ½ Particles: Chapter 16. The Dirac Equation; Chapter 17. Transforming Dirac Spinors; Chapter 18. Quantizing the Dirac FieldSection VII. The Electroweak Theory: Chapter 19. Electromagnetism from U(1); Chapter 20. Quantum Electrodynamics; Chapter 21. Renormalization; Chapter 22. Applications of QED; Chapter 23. The Weak Interaction from SU(2); Chapter 24. The Weak Interaction’s Leftist Bias; Chapter 25. The Unified Electroweak TheorySection VIII. Particle Masses: Chapter 26. The Higgs Mechanism; Chapter 27. Fermion Masses and Mixing; Chapter 28. Neutrino Masses and Mixing; Chapter 29. Applications of the Electroweak TheorySection IX. Chromodynamics: Chapter 30. Chromodynamics from SU(3); Chapter 31. Applications of QCDSection X. And Beyond!: Chapter 32. Beyond the Standard ModelAppendix A. Potentials From Interactions; Index