What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Standard Model'
'The Standard Model' is an elegant and extremely successful theory that formulates the laws of fundamental interactions among elementary particles.
This incisive textbook introduces students to the physics of the Standard Model while providing an essential overview of modern particle physics, with a unique emphasis on symmetry principles as the starting point for constructing models.
'The Standard Model' equips students with an in-depth understanding of this impressively predictive theory.
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