Publisher's Synopsis
This book gives an overview of the development in our understanding of the physics of the fundamental particles and their interactions from the early days when symmetries and invariance principles guided the study of physics. It includes discourses on Lie groups and Lie algebra, the quark model, V-A theory of weak interactions, deep-inelastic leptop-hadron scattering, electron-positron annihilation into hadrons, quark-flavours, chromodynamics, Electroweak unification and the Glashow-Salam-Weinberg model. A brief discussion of some of the beyond the standard model theories have also been included. The book would be beneficial for the students and researchers in this field, as well as the general readers as it expounds the details about Particle Physics in a comprehensive and lucid manner.
