SymmetryPrinciplesParticlePhysics(CambridgeMonographsonPhysics)

Anunderstandingofthepropertiesandinteractionsoftheelementaryparticlesisanessentialprerequisiteofresearchworkinhighenergyphysics.Muchprogressinthesubjecthasbeenachievedwiththeaidofsymmetryprinciples.Inthis1980booktheconceptofsymmetryorinvarianceisemployedasaunifyingtheme.Usingacarefulexplanationofthemathematicalformalismandwithmanyapplicationstoparticularcases,theauthorsintroducethereadertothesymmetryschemeswhichdominatetheworldoftheparticlephysicist.Thepresentationwillalsoappealtomathematiciansandphysicistsinotherfieldswhoareinterestedintheapplicationsofthegeneralprinciplesofsymmetry.Afterabriefsurveyoftheparticlesandareviewoftherelevantquantummechanics,theprincipalsymmetriesarestudiedinturn.Sometechnicalpointsarerelegatedtoappendicesandthebookcontainsextensivereferences.