Bibliography
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
- http://edu.itp.phys.ethz.ch/hs10/ppp1/ (Particle Physics Phenomenology at ETH Zurich)
Excercises:
- L.Bianchini, Selected Excercises in Particle and Nuclear Physics - Springer (2018). https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319704937
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:
- Cahn, Goldhaber - The experimental foundations of Particle Physics - Cambridge U.P. (2009). https://archive.org/details/CahnGoldhaberExperimentalFoundationsOfParticlePhysics
- Y.Ne'eman, Y.Kirsh - The particle hunters - Cambridge U. P. (non technical).
- F. Close - The new cosmic onion - Taylor and Francis (2007)
- G. Giudice - Odissea nello zeptospazio - Springer (2010). https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9788847016309
- J. Steinberger - Learning About Particles - 50 Privileged Years - Springer (2005). https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unpisa/detail.action?docID=238640 (accessible with UNIPI account)
Theory books:
- Berestetskii, Lifshitz, Pitaevskii - Relativistic Quantum Theory - Pergamon Press (1971) https://archive.org/details/RelativisticQuantumTheoryPart1
- J.J. Sakurai - Modern Quantum Mechanics - Benjamin/Cummins (1985)
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/