Electroweak Interactions

In the middle volume of a three-volume set of textbooks for a series of courses that replaced the traditional course of theoretical physics, Maiani illustrates the conceptual route that led to the unification of the weak and electromagnetic interactions, starting from the identification of the weak hadronic current with the isotopic spin current; through the conserved vector current hypothesis of Fenman, Gell-Mann, and others; to Yang-Mills theory and to the first electroweak theory of Glashow. The volume provides the fundamental elements of the theory of compact Lie groups and their representations, necessary for a basic understanding of the role of flavor symmetry in particle physics. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Luciano Maiani is a professor at Sapienza – Universita di Roma, Italy. He is the author or coauthor of more than 200 scientific publications on the theory of elementary particles that have received more than 14,000 citations.