Description based on online resource; title from title page (Safari, viewed Aug. 7, 2013).

Previous ed.: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The particle physicist's view of nature -- Lorentz transformations -- The Lagrangian formulation of mechanics -- Classical electromagnetism -- The Dirac equation and the Dirac field -- Free space solutions of the Dirac equation -- Electrodynamics -- Quantising fields : QED -- The weak interaction : low energy phenomenology -- Symmetry breaking in model theories -- Massive gauge fields -- The Weinberg-Salam electroweak theory for leptons -- Experimental tests of the Weinberg-Salam theory -- The electromagnetic and weak interactions of quarks -- The hadronic decays of the Z and W bosons -- The theory of strong interactions : quantum chromodynamics -- Quantum chromodynamics : calculations -- The Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix -- Neutrino masses and mixing -- Neutrino masses and mixing : experimental results -- Majorana neutrinos -- Anomalies.