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Preface
important technique of effective Lagrangians, including the extension to the
three-flavour case and the associated mass relations. A much fuller account is
given of three-generation quark mixing and the CKM matrix (section 20.7.3),
as preparation for chapter 21. The essential points in chapter 21 of the previous edition, relating to problems with the current–current and IVB models,
now provide the introductory motivation for the GSW theory in chapter 22.
One item has been banished to an appendix: geometrical aspects of gauge
theories, which did after all seem to interrupt the flow of chapter 13 too much
(but we hope readers will not ignore it). And another has been brought in
from the cold: as already mentioned, Majorana fermions now find themselves
appearing for the first time in volume 1.
Acknowledgements
We are very grateful to Paolo Strolin for providing a list of misprints and
a very thorough catalogue of excellent comments for volume 2 of the third
edition, which has resulted in a large number of improvements in the present
text. The CP-violation sections in chapters 20 and 21 were much improved following detailed comments by Abi Soffer, and the neutrino sections in chapter
21 likewise benefited greatly from careful readings by Francesco Tramontano
and Tim Cohen; we thank all three for their generous help. The eps files for
figures 16.11 and 16.12 were kindly supplied by Christine Davies and Stephan
D¨ urr, respectively. IJRA thanks Michael Peskin and Stan Brodsky for welcoming him as a visitor to the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Particle
Theory group (supported by the Department of Energy under contract DEAC02-76SF00515), and Bill Dunwoodie and BaBar colleagues for very kindly
arranging for him to be a BaBar Associate; these connections have been invaluable. On a more technical note, IJRA thanks Xing-Gang Wu for some
crucial help with JaxoDraw.
Ian J R Aitchison and Anthony J G Hey
October 2012
Preface
important technique of effective Lagrangians, including the extension to the
three-flavour case and the associated mass relations. A much fuller account is
given of three-generation quark mixing and the CKM matrix (section 20.7.3),
as preparation for chapter 21. The essential points in chapter 21 of the previous edition, relating to problems with the current–current and IVB models,
now provide the introductory motivation for the GSW theory in chapter 22.
One item has been banished to an appendix: geometrical aspects of gauge
theories, which did after all seem to interrupt the flow of chapter 13 too much
(but we hope readers will not ignore it). And another has been brought in
from the cold: as already mentioned, Majorana fermions now find themselves
appearing for the first time in volume 1.
Acknowledgements
We are very grateful to Paolo Strolin for providing a list of misprints and
a very thorough catalogue of excellent comments for volume 2 of the third
edition, which has resulted in a large number of improvements in the present
text. The CP-violation sections in chapters 20 and 21 were much improved following detailed comments by Abi Soffer, and the neutrino sections in chapter
21 likewise benefited greatly from careful readings by Francesco Tramontano
and Tim Cohen; we thank all three for their generous help. The eps files for
figures 16.11 and 16.12 were kindly supplied by Christine Davies and Stephan
D¨ urr, respectively. IJRA thanks Michael Peskin and Stan Brodsky for welcoming him as a visitor to the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Particle
Theory group (supported by the Department of Energy under contract DEAC02-76SF00515), and Bill Dunwoodie and BaBar colleagues for very kindly
arranging for him to be a BaBar Associate; these connections have been invaluable. On a more technical note, IJRA thanks Xing-Gang Wu for some
crucial help with JaxoDraw.
Ian J R Aitchison and Anthony J G Hey
October 2012