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Mathematical Physics

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´This textbook gives a comprehensive summary of the gauge theories of the fundamental interactions. The authors stress the intimate connection between the basic experimental facts and the formulation of gauge theories of the strong and electroweak interaction. The concepts and technical tools of quantum field theory are presented. They are used to derive precision results of quantum chromodynamics and the standard model of the electroweak interaction of experiments in elementary particle physics. The book includes the latest experimental results and presents the actual status of the theory.

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Basic concepts: The fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions - Elements of relativistic quantum mechanics - The quark model of the hadrons - Phenomenology of the electroweak interaction - The quark parton model - Quantum theory of gauge fields - Quantum chromodynamics - Theory of the electroweak interaction - Outlook to grand unified theories and supersymmetry

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Professor Dr. Manfred Böhm, Universität Würzburg
Dr. Ansgar Denner, Villingen
Professor Dr. Hans Joos, Universität Hamburg

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