This particle physics textbook for senior undergraduates and early graduates explains the Standard Model of particle physics, both the theory and its experiment

The 2013 discovery of the Higgs boson posed a challenge to both physics undergraduates and their instructors. Since particle physics is seldom taught at the und

The second volume of this authoritative work traces the material outlined in the first, but in far greater detail and with a much higher degree of sophisticatio

Following the discovery of the Higgs boson, Frank Close has produced this major revision to his classic and compelling introduction to the fundamental particles

'Particle or Wave' explains the origins and development of modern physical concepts about matter and the controversies surrounding them.