Gauge Theories

My graduate textbook, Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions, has had a continuing life as an Advanced Book Classic from the Perseus Books Group. First published in 1983, Gauge Theories evolved from my one-quarter or one-semester courses on gauge theories and particle physics. It deals with the logic and structure of local gauge symmetries and gauge theories, from quantum electrodynamics through unified theories of the interactions among leptons and quarks. Many explicit calculations provide the reader with practice in computing the consequences of these theories and offer a perspective on key experimental investigations. Many people have also found it useful as a reference book or for self-study. Amazon offers a look inside Gauge Theories.

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Princeton University Press will publish a new edition of Gauge Theories, with the manuscript to be delivered in the Spring of 2008. Until it appears, the problems and readings from my 1997 Princeton course update the references and point to some new topics. For recent informal treatments, see "The Standard Model (Electroweak Theory)," transparencies from my six lectures at the 2002 European School of High-Energy Physics, Pylos, Greece; and "Beyond the Standard Model," slides and animations from the 2003 Latin-American School of High-Energy Physics, San Miguel Regla (Hidalgo), Mexico; "Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and the Higgs Sector," lecture notes from the XXVII International Meeting on Fundamental Physics, Sierra Nevada (Granada), Spain, published in Acta Physica Polonica B30, 2145 (1999); "The Electroweak Theory," lecture notes from TASI 2000, Boulder; and my 2006 Maria Laach lectures on "The Standard Model."

I would be very happy to receive comments and suggestions for the new edition of Gauge Theories.