Complete textbooks:

  • A. Bettini - Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics - Cambridge U.P. (2012),
  • D. Griffiths - Introduction to elementary particles - Wiley (2008),
  • D.H. Perkins - Introduction to High Energy Physics -- Cambridge U.P. (2000),
  • D. Thomson, Modern Particle Physics, Cambridge U.P. (2013). Online resources: https://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/~thomson/MPP/ModernParticlePhysics.html
  • M. E. Peskin, Concepts of Elementary Particle Physics, Oxford U.P. (2018)

  • H. Schopper, C. Fabjan, S. Myers editors, Particle Physics Reference Library, Springer 2020, free download on https://www.springer.com/series/16489

  • New entry 2023: P.Paganini, Fundamentals of Particle Physics, Cambridge UP, Link 

Online lectures and lecture notes

Excercises:

Further reading:

  • H.J. Lipkin - Lie Groups for Pedestrians, Dover (2002)
  • M.S. Sozzi - Discrete symmetries and CP Violation - Oxford G.T. (2008).
  • Povh, Rith, Scholz, Zetsche - Particles and nuclei - Springer 6-th Ed. (2008).
  • R.Hagedorn - Relativistic Kinematics - (1962). Lecture notes from which the book originates are available at http://cds.cern.ch/record/285333
  • F.Close - An Introduction to Quarks and Partons - Academic Press (1979)

Historical perspective and divulgative:



Theory books:

On the interactions of the radiation with matter and particle detectors:

  • D. Green - The physics of particle detectors - Cambridge U.P. (2000),
  • C. Grupen - Particle detectors - Cambridge U.P. (1996),
  • W.R. Leo -Techniques for nuclear and particle physics experiments - Springer-Verlag (1994).
  • J.D. Jackson - Classical Electrodynamics - Wiley (1998),
  • T. Ferbel (ed.) - Experimental techniques in HEP - Addison Wesley (1987),
  • K. Kleinknecht - Detectors for particle radiation - Cambridge U.P. (1998).

Particle Data Group - Review of particle physics – pdg.lbl.gov
High energy physics publication database - inspirehep.net

(Dec 2022): CERN's open access SCOAP3 initiative has released 60 particle physics and QFT books free for download here: https://scoap3.org/scoap3-books/


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