Bücher von Kerson (Massachusetts Inst Of Tech Huang

Gauge fields are the messengers carrying signals between elementary particles, enabling them to interact with each other. Originating at the level of quarks, these interactions percolate upwards, through nuclear and atomic physics, through chemical and solid state physics, to make our world go round. This book tells the story of gauge fields.

Primarily consists of an introduction to Yang-Mills fields and the standard model of particle physics. A concise introduction to quarks is provided, with a discussion of the representations of SU(3). This second edition has been expanded and includes Wilson's renormalization scheme amongst others.