Overview: The book provides a simple and appealing overview of second quantisation, of symmetries and their calculation with quantum field theory, and of QED,QFD and QCD, with all facets, such as the Goldstone This revised and extended edition of the book Fields, Symmetries, and Quarks, originally published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, Hamburg, 1989, contains a new chapter on electroweak interactions which has also grown out of lectures that I have given in the meantime. In addition, a number of changes, mainly in the metric used, in the discussion of the theory of strong interactions, QCD, an
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