Corrections to REVISION OF

 Volume 2 of

Student Friendly Quantum Field Theory:

The Standard Model

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8

Dec 28, 2023

Jim Dimech

520

Index

Dec 28, 2023

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

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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.”

290

8

Aug 12, 2023

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

David Lear

492

16

Aug 12, 2023

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

David Lear

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

153

5

Sept 19, 2022

(5-65): Insert a minus sign after “M^k =” and note that the last relation for Q^k 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

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9

Sept 19, 2022

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

Anthony Soong

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

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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.”

312

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July 28, 2022

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

124

4

July 19, 2022

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

Anthony Soong

130

4

July 19, 2022

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

Anthony Soong

247

7

June 16, 2022

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

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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.

67

3

Oct 5, 2023

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

229

7

Oct 5, 2023

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

250

7

Oct 5, 2023

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

28

2

Aug12, 2023

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

David Lear

43

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Aug12, 2023

Heading at top of page: Delete “43”

David Lear

63

2

Aug12, 2023

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

David Lear

169

6

Aug12, 2023

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

David Lear

183

6

Aug12, 2023

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

David Lear

232

7

Aug12, 2023

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

David Lear

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

519

Index

June 23, 2023

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

15

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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

450

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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.

David Lear

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1

Oct 10, 2022

(1-1): font size too large

4

1

Oct 10, 2022

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

364

11

Sept 2, 2022

3^rd line on page: before “they”, insert “if they are real,

190

6

June 17, 2022

Fig. 6-6 title: Change “Up” to “Down”

vii

TOC

June 16, 2022

16.8 Problems should be “16.9 Problems”

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.

223

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June 16, 2022

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

239

7

June 16, 2022

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

467

16

June 16, 2022

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

509

18

June 16, 2022

Wholeness Chart 18-4: Make shaded rows darker.