Good particle physics self directed study textbooks.
Anon
further my study in particle physics.
I have a good knowledge of Undergraduate Calculus and Differential
Equations, and basic Physics, but no advanced knowledge of the exact
mathematics of the Modern Physics on the upper level undergraduate and
graduate level. I am thinking of finding some syllabuses of the
different universities with their internet links and then trying to
follow them along with any textbooks I could get at the local library
or through interlibrary loan.
Are there any textbooks, syllabi, that anyone would recommend?
Gregory L. Hansen
If you haven't done basic quantum mechanics yet, you should start there.
I like Ramamurti Shankar's book, but there are other worthy titles.
For particle physics, _Particle Physics at the New Millenium_ by Byron P.
Roe is the one I learned from, and I like it better than Perkins, who is
the other big name. But all the group theory stuff seemed mystical and
useless to me until I started going through Greiner's book _Quantum
Mechanics: Symmetries_. Greiner's book mostly deals with particle
physics, but I think it should really be thought of as a book on group
theory in physics (a book on group theory that doesn't suck, which is the
first I've seen). Roe is probably a much better introduction to the
physics part.
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"'No user-serviceable parts inside.' I'll be the judge of that!"
Jamieson Christie
I have found David Griffiths' "Introduction to Elementary Particles"
(Wiley, NY, 1987) helpful. Amazon have got copies if you want to buy
it but a decent university library should have it.
Jamieson Christie