This highly regarded text provides an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to modem particle physics.
Extensively rewritten and updated, this fourth edition includes all the recent developments in elementary particle physics, as well as its connections with cosmology and astrophysics. As in previous editions, the balance between experiment and theory is continually emphasized. The stress is on the phenomenological approach and basic theoretical concepts rather than rigorous mathematical detail. Short descriptions are given of some of the key experiments in the field, and how they have influenced our thinking. Although most of the material is presented in the context of the Standard Model of quarks and leptons, the shortcomings of this model and new physics beyond its compass (such as super symmetry, neutrino mass and oscillations, GUTs and superstrings) are also discussed. The text includes many problems and a detailed and annotated further reading list.
This is a text suitable for final-year physics undergraduates and graduate students studying experimental or theoretical particle physics.

在本书中，诺贝尔物理学奖得主斯蒂芬·温伯格讲述了一个关于发现原子结构的引人入胜的故事，展示了亚原子粒子的发现历史与当今物理学前沿工作之间的联系。本书以亚原子粒子，包括电子、质子和中子等的发现为主线，遵循历史的轮廓，让读者直接进入20世纪物理学的一系列关键的专题，内容详尽，资料丰富。