| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Strong, electromagnetic and weak interactions | p. 1 |
| The light leptons | p. 6 |
| The light quarks | p. 8 |
| Heavy quarks and leptons | p. 12 |
| Forces and particle exchange | p. 15 |
| The electroweak gauge bosons | p. 17 |
| The strong gauge bosons | p. 23 |
| Summary on interactions and symmetries | p. 31 |
| Towards a quantum field theory | p. 41 |
| The building blocks of quantum field theory | p. 41 |
| Non-relativistic quantum mechanics | p. 41 |
| Special relativity | p. 66 |
| Angular momentum | p. 76 |
| Group theory | p. 83 |
| Wave equations, propagators and fields | p. 104 |
| Spin 0 particles | p. 105 |
| Spin 1/2 particles | p. 121 |
| Spin 1 particles | p. 142 |
| Quantum electrodynamics | p. 146 |
| Scattering of an electron in a Coulomb field | p. 146 |
| Electron-proton scattering | p. 150 |
| Electron-electron and electron-positron interactions | p. 157 |
| Compton scattering, [small gamma] + e[superscript -] [right arrow] [small gamma] + e[superscript -] | p. 162 |
| Bremsstrahlung and pair production | p. 169 |
| Electron polarisation effects | p. 172 |
| Lagrangian for electromagnetic interactions | p. 175 |
| Interactions of scalar particles | p. 180 |
| Higher orders, divergences and renormalisation | p. 186 |
| From Fermi theory to the standard model | p. 202 |
| Beta decay and the V -- A interaction | p. 202 |
| Charm and the Glashow, Iliopoulos and Maiani (GIM) mechanism | p. 228 |
| Incorporating neutral currents | p. 230 |
| Local gauge symmetries | p. 234 |
| Spontaneous symmetry breaking | p. 240 |
| Purely leptonic interactions | p. 259 |
| Muon decay and related processes | p. 259 |
| Neutrino and antineutrino electron scattering | p. 276 |
| The electroweak reaction e[superscript +]e[subscript -][right arrow]ff | p. 284 |
| Deep inelastic scattering and quantum chromodynamics | p. 292 |
| Elastic charged lepton-nucleon scattering | p. 292 |
| Deep inelastic charged lepton-nucleon scattering | p. 298 |
| The quark-parton model | p. 306 |
| Polarisation effects in deep inelastic scattering | p. 318 |
| Deep inelastic neutrino-nucleon scattering | p. 324 |
| Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) | p. 332 |
| QCD and deep inelastic scattering | p. 342 |
| Total cross-section for e[superscript +]e[superscript -] [right arrow] hadrons | p. 357 |
| Hadronisation | p. 361 |
| Fragmentation functions | p. 366 |
| Hadron-hadron scattering | p. 370 |
| Structure function of the photon | p. 380 |
| Determination of [alpha][subscript s] | p. 384 |
| Weak hadronic currents, electroweak interference effects | p. 386 |
| Decays of mesons containing light quarks | p. 386 |
| Semileptonic decays of light baryons | p. 393 |
| Cabibbo theory | p. 398 |
| Further properties of the currents of light quarks | p. 405 |
| Hadronic weak decays | p. 409 |
| Decays of hadrons containing heavy quarks | p. 413 |
| Hadronic decays of [tau]-leptons | p. 429 |
| Neutral currents in deep inelastic scattering | p. 433 |
| Electroweak interference effects for quarks | p. 440 |
| Summary of NC couplings of leptons and quarks | p. 449 |
| Quark and lepton oscillations | p. 451 |
| The neutral kaon system | p. 451 |
| Mixing and CP violation in heavy quark systems | p. 471 |
| Neutrino mass and oscillations | p. 475 |
| The standard model and beyond | p. 487 |
| Decay of W[superscript [plusminus]] | p. 488 |
| Decay of Z[superscript 0] | p. 491 |
| Production of W[superscript [plusminus]] and Z[superscript 0] | p. 492 |
| Testing the standard model | p. 522 |
| The missing ingredients | p. 527 |
| Left-right symmetric models | p. 542 |
| Grand Unified Theories | p. 544 |
| Compositeness | p. 553 |
| SUSY | p. 555 |
| Superstrings | p. 560 |
| Units | p. 565 |
| Properties of [gamma]-matrices | p. 567 |
| Cross-sections, decay rates and Feynman rules | p. 570 |
| Dirac [delta]-function | p. 577 |
| Fierz transformation | p. 578 |
| Creation and annihilation operators for a Dirac field | p. 580 |
| References | p. 581 |
| Index | p. 591 |
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