INTRODUCTION TO ELEMENTARY PARTICLES

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INTRODUCTION TO ELEMENTARY PARTICLESWILEYDavid GriffithsReed CollegeJOHN WILEY & SONS, York Chichester Brisbane Toronto SingaporeINTRODUCTION TO ELEMENTARY PARTICLESCopyright 1987 John Wiley & Sons, rights reserved. Published simultaneously in or translation of any part of this work beyond that permit ted by Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act without the permission of the copyright owner is unlawful. Requests for permis sion or further information should be addressed to the Permissions De partment, John Wiley & Sons, of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataGriffiths, David J. (David Jeffrey), 1942- INTRODUCTION to ELEMENTARY bibliographies and PARTICLES (Nuclear physics) I. 1987 '21 86-25709ISBN 0-471-60386-4Printed and bound in the United States of America 20 19 18 17 16 15 14CONTENTSPreface viiIntroduction 1Elementary Particle Physics 1 How Do You Produce ELEMENTARY PARTICLES ?

quantum mechanics. Finally, for things that are both fast and small, we require a theory that incorporates relativity and quantum principles: quantum field the­ ory. Now, elementary particles are extremely small, of course, and typically they are also very fast. So elementary particle physics naturally falls under the do­ minion of quantum ...

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