Introduction to the Physics of Electroweak Interactions

Introduction


1. Deep-inelastic electron scattering on nucleons

1.1. Cross-sections. Structure functions

1.2. Cross-sections σT and σS. The behavior of functions W1 and W2 at q2→0

1.3. Deep-inelastic scattering of polarized electrons on polarized protons


2. Elastic scattering of high-energy electrons by nucleons

2.1. Elastic electron scattering on nucleons (unpolarized particles)

2.2. Elastic scattering of polarized electrons on polarized nucleons


3. The phenomenological V-A weak interaction theory


4. The Glashow-Weinberg-Salam theory


5. Neutrino processes (charged currents)

5.1. The processes vμ(v-μ)+N→μ-(μ+)+X(structure functions, general expressions for cross-sections)

5.2. The processes vμ(v-μ)+N→μ-(μ+)+X (the parton approximation)

5.3. The quasielastic processes vμ+n→μ-+p and v-μ+p→μ++n


6. Neutral currents

6.1. The neutral current in the gauge SU(2)XU(1) theory

6.2. The processes vμ(v-μ)+N→vμ(v-μ)+X

6.3. Processes vμ(v-μ)+p→vμ-(v-μ)+p

6.4. Processes v(v-)+e→v(v-)+e

6.5. P-odd asymmetry in deep-inelastic scattering of polarized leptons on nucleons

Appendix A. Cross-section (definition, calculation)

Appendix B. The Dirac equation

Appendix C. Spin states of particles with spin ½. The density matrix of spin ½ particles

Appendix D. The Fertz transformation

Appendix E. The Feynman metric

Appendix F. The system of units h=c=1

Appendix G. Deep-inelastic scattering of polarized electrons on polarized nucleons (the parton model)

References

Index