High energy physics. 4. rev. and enlarged ed.

This book is an introduction to the physics of the elementary particles for studyings of physics. Accelerators and storage rings, the kinds of interactions between particles, quarks and leptons as elementary constituents, particle zoo with strangeness and charm, conservation laws and symmetries, tests and limits of quantum electrodynamics, the quark model with color and gluons, the current-current approach of weak interactions, the Cabibbo theory, the GIM mechanisms, the k-0 physics, and the neutrino physics are treated. (orig.) With 109 figs., 27 tabs