Forces and Particles

DRAFT: WORK IN PROGRESS

  • J.Allday - Quarks,Leptons and the Big-Bang
  • Frank Close - The new Cosmic Onion. quarks and the nature of the universe-(2007)
  • Leon M. Lederman and Christopher T. Hill - Beyond the God Particle (2013) transl.it. Beyond the God Particle
  • Antonio Ereditato - The Elementary Particles-(2017)

Symmetry in elementary particle physics

  • Bruce A. Schumm - Deep Down Things. The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics (2004)
  • Leon M. Lederman, Christopher T. Hill - Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe (2004)
  • Anthony Zee - Fearful Symmetry. The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics- (2007)
  • Frank Close - Lucifer’s Legacy. The Meaning of Asymmetry (2013)

High Disclosure. introduction to elementary particle physics

  • Abraham Pais - Inward Bound. Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World - (1988)
  • Martinus Veltman - Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics - (2003)
  • Kerson Huang - Fundamental Forces of Nature. the Story of Gauge Fields - (2007)
  • Lincoln Wolfenstein, João Paulo Silva - Exploring Fundamental Particles - (2011)
  • James E. Dodd, Ben Gripaios - The Ideas of Particle Physics - 4th ed. (2020)

For the history of high-energy physics see also:

  • Steven Weiberg - The Making of Standard Model - arxiv:0401010 (2004)

  • Tom Kibble - The Standard Model of Particle Physics - arxiv:1412.4094 (2014)

  • G.Rajasekaran - Fermi and the theory of weak interactions - arxiv:1403.3309 (2014)

  • Jim Baggott - The Quantum Story. a History in 40 Moments - (2011)

  • Andrew Pickering - Constructing Quarks A Sociological History Of Particle Physics

  • Andrea Cappelli, Elena Castellani, Filippo Colomo, Paolo Di Vecchia - The Birth of String Theory

Understanding Quantum Field Theory

  • Stephen Blundell, Tom Lancaster - Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur

  • Robert D. Klauber - Student Friendly Quantum Field Theory: Basic Principles and Quantum Electrodynamics

  • Richard D. Mattuck - A Guide to Feynman Diagrams in the Many-Body Problem

  • Xiao-Gang Wen - Quantum Field Theory of Many-Body Systems (2007)

  • Stephen Haywood - Symmetries And Conservation Laws In Particle Physics: An Introduction To Group Theory For Particle Physicists (2010)

  • Roberto Iengo - Quantum Field Theory. An arcane setting for explaining the world (2018)

  • Richard P. Feynman, Albert R. Hibbs - Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals: Emended Edition (edited by Daniel Styer)

  • K. Moriyasu - Elementary Primer for Gauge Theory (1983)

  • Paul Teller - An interpretive introduction to quantum field theory (1995)

Recent theoretical developments, strings and quantum gravity:

  • Roger Penrose - Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe

  • Maurizio Gasperini - Gravity, Strings and Particles(2014)

  • Lee Smolin - Three roads to quantum gravity (2001)

  • Sagnotti Sevrin - Strings,Gravity and Particle Physics - arxiv:0209011 (2002)

  • Conlon, Joseph - Why String Theory - (2016)

  • Leonard Susskind, James Lindesay - An introduction to black holes, information and the string theory revolution. (2005)

  • Rodolfo Gambini, Jorge Pullin - Loop Quantum Gravity For Everyone (2020)

  • James J Kolata - Elementary Cosmology. from Aristotle’s Universe to the Big Bang and Beyond.

  • Jim Baggott - Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe