1 The Discovery of the Weak Interaction
1.1 The Universal Fermi of Parity
1.2 The Non-conservation of Parity
1.3 Bibliographical Notes
2 Leptonic Interactions
2.1 The Current-Current Interaction
2.2 THe Decay of the Muon
2.3 The Lifetime of the Muon
2.4 Parity Violation in the Muon Decay
2.5 The Michel Parameters
2.6 The Tau Lepton
2.7 Bibliographical Notes
3 Limitations of Fermi Theory
3.1 neutral Currents
3.2 Scattering of a Muon Neutrino by an Electron
3.3 Vu-e-Scattering
3.4 High-Energy Behaviour of Neutrino-Electron Dcattering
3.5 Supplement: Scattering Formalism for Spin-1/2 Particles
3.6 Divergences in Higher-Order Processes
3.7 Bibliograhical Notes
4 The Salam-Weinberg THeory
4.1 The Higgs Mechanism
4.2 The Yang-Mills Field
4.3 The Feynama Rules of Yang-Mills Theory
4.4 The Glashow-Salam-Weinberg Model of Leptons
4.5 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: The Higgs Sector
4.6 Hidden SU(2)×U(1)Gauge Invariance
4.7 Bibliographical Notes
5 Some Properties of the Salam-Weinberg Theory of Leptons
5.1 Decay of the Charged Boson W-
5.2 The Process e+e-—Z0—u+u-
5.3 High Energy behaviour of the GSW Theory
5.4 Bibliographical Notes
6 Semi-Leptonic Interactions of Hadrons
6.1 THe World of Hadrons
6.2 Phenomenology of Decays of Hadrons
6.3 Weak Interactions of Quarks
6.4 Gabibbo's Theory of Flavour Mixing
6.5 Biblographical Notes
7 Nuclear Beta Decay
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8 The Neutral Kaon System
9 Unified Gauge Theories
Appendix
Subject Index