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1. Introduction -- 1.1. Supplementary reading -- 1.2. Aims and philosophy -- 1.3. Prerequisites -- 1.4. Conventions and notation

2. Symmetries (discrete and continuous) -- 2.1. Beta decay -- 2.2. Parity violation in weak interactions -- 2.3. Parity violation in [beta]-decay -- 2.4. V-A formulation of the weak currents -- 2.5. Cabibbo theory -- 2.6. The Glashow-Iliopoulos-Maiani (GIM) mechanism -- 2.7. The Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix and CP violation

3. Hadronic physics (the quark-parton model) -- 3.1. Pre-history -- 3.2. Gell-Mann's flavour SU(3) -- 3.3. Feynman's parton model -- 3.4. Quantum chromodynamics -- 3.5. A brief survey of quark and gluon densities -- 3.6. Further QCD topics

4. The new particles (discovery and study) -- 4.1. Cosmic rays and the early accelerator discoveries -- 4.2. Electron-positron colliders -- 4.3. Proton-antiproton colliders

5. The Standard Model (where we are now) -- 5.1. Fundamental forces and particles -- 5.2. The Higgs mechanism (SSB) -- 5.3. The CKM matrix -- 5.4. Neutrino masses, mixing and oscillation

6. Beyond the Standard Model (where we might be going) -- 6.1. New neutrino physics -- 6.2. Grand unified theories -- 6.3. Supersymmetry -- 6.4. Superstrings and beyond the four dimensions -- 6.5. Dark matter and energy -- 6.6. The effective-field-theory approach -- 6.7. Future colliders

Appendix A. Background notes -- Appendix B. Quantum mechanics -- Appendix C. Scattering theory -- Appendix D. Exercises.

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The book covers all aspects of laboratory elementary particle phenomenology, dealing with the two main interactions as described by the electroweak theory and quantum chromodynamics. It outlines the historical development of the theoretical framework, including the experimental motivations and discoveries of the last and present centuries. The interplay between theory and experiment is central to the presentation, as is the physical reasoning behind every step taken.This second edition includes various important topics omitted from the first printing and also includes new material, both experimental and theoretical, that has emerged over the last decade of intense activity at CERN and elsewhere. The book additionally includes many exercises with complete worked answers.

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Philip G. Ratcliffe has been a research assistant at Cambridge and London Universities and with the INFN Milan and Turin sections. In 1996 he moved to the School of Sciences in Como, at the University of Insubria, to take up a permanent position as a University Researcher in Theoretical Physics. His research activities regard elementary particle physics theory and phenomenology and he has spent periods visiting such institutions and laboratories as CERN, MIT, SLAC, Fermilab, BNL, INT (Seattle), the CPT in Marseille and the University of Paris.

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