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 Volume 2 of

Student Friendly Quantum Field Theory:

The Standard Model

 

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124

4

July 19, 2022

Equation (4-43): Delete the minus signs in front of the 2nd and 3rd relations.

Anthony Soong

130

4

July 19, 2022

Line right above Problems section: in front of sigma, insert “i”.

Anthony Soong

153

5

Sept 19, 2022

(5-65): Insert a minus sign after “Mk =” and note that the last relation for Qk is valid for v << 1.

Pedagogic aid: For v a significant fraction of the speed of light 1, and for more insight on (6-22), see www.quantumfieldtheory.info/Spinor_Lorentz_transf.pdf and the references in the footnote on page 171 of Vol. 1.

Anthony Soong

247

7

June 16, 2022

Pedagogic aid: At end of 3rd paragraph (which ends in “pdf.”): Insert the following sentence. “Also see Chap. 16 herein, pgs. 475 and 491.”

 

252

7

Sept 2, 2022

Pedagogic aid: Insert new sub-section between Sects. 7.5.3 and 7.5.4 with title “Leptons, Quarks, and Mass Matrices” and text as follows.

“All of our work related to mass matrices can be summarized in a nutshell, as follows.

·        For quarks, we diagonalize the mass matrix, and

·        for leptons, we diagonalize the interaction (flavor) matrix (with the W bosons).

Thus,

·        for quarks, the interaction (flavor) matrix (with the W bosons) is non-diagonal; and

·        for leptons, the mass matrix is non-diagonal.”

 

252 and 511

7 and 18

Sept 9, 2022

Pedagogic aid that I just discovered and would have liked to include in the text: A great overview chart of the standard model. See Standard_Model_Chart_by_Boyle .

Latham Boyle

282

8

Dec 28, 2023


Jim Dimech

290

8

Aug 12, 2023

1st line after (8-121), change second subscript f on p to i.

David Lear

312

9

Sept 19, 2022

Eq. (9-65): Insert a minus sign after “Mk =” and insert “v << 1”.  Eqs. (9-67), (9-70) and (9-71): change sign in all exponentials.

Anthony Soong

312

9

July 28, 2022

Line below (9-71): Change “152” to “153”

 

450

15

Oct 14, 2022

Top line: After (15-51), insert “for the quark and gluon terms”. After (15-35), insert “which we have already found represents the ghost interactions,”.

In Problem 3 statement, replace all words with “Problem 3 has been deleted.”

At end of chapter (pg. 462), delete Problem 3

Anthony Soong

492

16

Aug 12, 2023

Prob. 2, 1st line: change “first column” to  second column -

David Lear

509

18

Dec 17, 2022

Pedagogic aid: Just above Wholeness Chart 18-4, insert the following.

“You may read in places that the total number of elementary particles is 25. By this counting there are 6 quarks, 3 charged leptons, 3 neutrinos, 3 intermediate vector bosons, 8 gluons, 1 photon, and 1 Higgs. Quark and lepton antiparticles are not counted. For example, the positron is not included, as it is the antiparticle of the electron. But for the bosons, antiparticles are included. The W- is the antiparticle of the W+, but both are counted. So, this method of counting seems internally inconsistent.

However, in the high energy description, we have three W particles, the W1, W2, and W3, which are all different, none being an antiparticle of any other. So, with the high energy description, the elementary particle count of 25 is correct.

Wholeness Chart 18-4 is for the low energy description.”

 

520

Index

Dec 28, 2023

After “Lagrangian, e/w, interaction, low energy, 223, 234, 250” insert “, 292”.

 

 

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Minor Corrections (should not impact learning process)

 

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viii and x

Table and Preface

Oct 5, 2023

Page numbers are on upper right and should be on upper left.

 

vii

TOC

June 16, 2022

16.8 Problems should be “16.9 Problems”

 

4

1

Oct 10, 2022

(1-1): font size too large

 

4

1

Oct 10, 2022

(1-2): font size of some subscripts too small

 

15

2

Dec 27, 2022

Line above statement of Prob. 8: Delete “special”. Add sentence  And, as we will see, they will also be “special”.  

Mikael Djurfeldt

28

2

Aug12, 2023

Line above (2-54): Change “Hausdorf” to -Hausdorff -

David Lear

43

2

Aug12, 2023

Heading at top of page: Delete “43”

David Lear

63

2

Aug12, 2023

Prob.  29, 3rd line. Change period to question mark after “do”.

David Lear

67

3

Oct 5, 2023

Next to last margin note: In some printings of the book only: After “Green”, insert “function”.

 

75

3

June 16, 2022

(3-37) and (3-38) should be aligned with right margin

 

138

5

June 16, 2022

(5-17): delete extra period.

 

169

6

Aug12, 2023

5th line: Delete comma at end of the line.

David Lear

183

6

Aug12, 2023

3rd line after (6-92): Closing quotation marks on I are the wrong way round.

David Lear

190

6

June 17, 2022

Fig. 6-6 title: Change “Up” to “Down”

 

223

7

June 16, 2022

4th line up from bottom: change “250” to “251”

 

229

7

Oct 5, 2023

Three margin notes: In some printings of the book only: electron, muon, and tau symbols are jumbled.

 

232

7

Aug12, 2023

Wholeness Chart 7-5, 2nd row, 3rd column: Insert a missing question mark at end.

David Lear

239

7

June 16, 2022

4th line up from bottom: change “flavors” to “generations”

 

250

7

Oct 5, 2023

Wholeness Chart 7-10, last column, 5th row: delete extra space between 1 and V.

 

333

9

Aug 12, 2023

Line above (9-181): Delete a comma at the end of the line.

David Lear

409

13

Aug12, 2023

Just above (13-78): Change double ll in “mulltiplet” to single l.

David Lear

450

15

Oct 17, 2022

(15-57): Remove integral sign on LHS

Anthony Soong

458

15

Oct 13, 2022

Line after (15-108): 15-3 should have (c) after it instead of copyright symbol.

 

467

16

June 16, 2022

1st line after (16-4): After “(16-3)”, insert a right parenthesis.

 

509

18

June 16, 2022

Wholeness Chart 18-4: Make shaded rows darker.

 

519

Index

June 23, 2023

Under group theory, weights, change “49,51” to -50-

 

 

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