Title: Gauge theory of weak interactions /
Authors: Greiner, Walter, 1935-2016.; Müller, Berndt.; Müller, Berndt, 1950-
Publisher: Springer-Verlag,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Weak interactions (Nuclear physics); Gauge fields (Physics)
Contents: 1. The Discovery of the Weak Interaction. 1.1. The Universal Fermi Interaction. 1.2. The Non-Conservation of Parity -- 2. Leptonic Interactions. 2.1. The Current-Current Interaction (Charged Currents). 2.2. The Decay of the Muon. 2.3. The Lifetime of the Muon. 2.4. Parity violation in the Muon Decay. 2.5. The Michel Parameters. 2.6. The Tau Lepton -- 3. Limitations of Fermi Theory. 3.1. Neutral Currents. 3.2. Scattering of a Muon Neutrino by an Electron. 3.3. [actual symbol not reproducible] -- e[superscript-]. Scattering. 3.4. High-Energy Behaviour of Neutrino-Electron Scattering. 3.5. Supplement: Scattering Formalism for Spin-1/2 Particles. 3.6. Divergences in Higher-Order Processes -- 4. The Salam-Weinberg Theory. 4.1. The Higgs Mechanism. 4.2. The Yang-Mills Field. 4.3. The Feynman Rules of Yang-Mills Theory. 4.4. The Glashow-Salam-Weinberg Model of Leptons. 4.5. Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: The Higgs Sector. 4.6. Hidden SU(2) x U(1) Gauge Invariance.