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    Particle Physics (3rd edition) B.R. Martin and G.

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    Some typographical errors in the original 2008 edition, and in the 2009 edition, have been corrected in the 2010 printing.

    1. p. 11. In Figure 1.4h the arrows on the incoming positron line should be reversed. 2. p. 20. In Eq.(1.28) the factor c4 on the right-hand side should be c2 3. p. 33. In Eq.(2.15) the masses should refer to the muon and tauon neutrinos, not the muon and tauon themselves 4. p. 59. In Figure 3.3 the antineutrino should be a neutrino, as in the caption; and the arrows on the outgoing lepton lines should be reversed. This is correct in the 2009 edition. 5. p. 73. In Problem 3.2, table 3.5 should be table 3.4. 6. p. 86. In figure 4.6, the label on the x-axis: pc/M should be p/Mc. 7. p. 88. In the second line after Eq. (4.12), the equation in the text should be " <<1" not " = 1". This is correct in the 2009 edition. 8. p. 92. On line 4 the equation in the text should be " <<1" not " = 1". This is correct in the 2009 edition. 9. p. 138. Three lines below Eq. (5.59), "2p 2s" should be replaced by "2p 1s". 2 10. p. 199. The inequality in the line below Eq. (7.36) should read 0.02 Q 3. 11. p. 223. First line below the caption for Figure 8.7, "Figures 8.5 (a) and (b)" should be "Figures 8.6 (a) and (b)" and on the line below the 4 should be moved from the bracket on to "dimension". 12. p. 225. In the lower diagram of Figure 8.9, the quarks in the final state proton should be labeled, from the top down, as duu, not uud. 13. p. 229. In Eq (8.22) the bars should be on the d' and s' and not on the u and c. Similarly, on the unnumbered equation below it, the bars should be on the d', d and s and not on the u, u and u. 14. p. 230. In Figure 8.15 the bars should be on the d' and s' and not on the u and c; and the arrows on the final quark lines should both be reversed. Similarly, in Eq. (8.25a) the bars should be on the d' and s' and not on the u and c. 15. p. 255. In fig. 9.6 (b), in the quark loop replace t by b. 16. p. 275. On the y-axis of Figure 9.24, 10 should be replaced by 100, like 102, 101 etc. 17. p. 304. On the line below the unnumbered equation, replace "observable decays" by "for observable decays. This is correct in the 2009 edition.

    18. p. 336. In the second part of (A.2) there should (a) be an equals sign after pi and before mi (b) be a boldfaced roman ui after the mi and before the italic . 19. p. 365. There are two equations (C.25). The second should not be numbered. This is correct in the 2009 edition. 20. p. 373. Historical Note: the Lorentz gauge. The gauge defined by Eq. (D.11) was was first introduced by L. Lorenz in 1867, and was only used much later by H.A.Lorentz in his classic papers on relativistic electrodynamics. Nonetheless, in this book we have followed the usual convention in particle physics and quantum field theory and referred to it as the Lorentz gauge, in order to emphasize the property which makes it important i.e. its Lorentz covariance. Similarly the non-covariant gauge defined by divA = 0 was not introduced by Coulomb, but is called the Coulomb gauge to emphasize its most important property: that the scalar potential reduces to the instantaneous Coulomb potential of electrostatics in this gauge. 21. p. 400. The spin of the charged D* particles should be 1 not 0. This is correct in the 2009 edition. 22. p. 405. Solution 2.5. 10-13 should be 10-19. 23. p. 406. Solution 2.7. There are two numerical errors in this solution. In the unnumbered equation, 0.98 should be 0.938 in the denominator of the middle term. Consequently the resulting values of N (right hand side) and n (next line) are 1.2 x 1057 and 8.4 1038, respectively. In addition, a factor of 106 has gone missing in the mean free path, which should be 6.6 1012 km, i.e. about 107 times the solar radius. 24. p. 418. Solution 8.8. Last line Vub 2 should be Vub , and Vcb 2 should be Vcb . 25. p. 419. Solution 9.3. cos2 c is missing in the numerator of the fraction on the right hand side. 26. p. 420. Solution 9.4. Line 4: mb should be b. 27. p. 423. Solution 11.6. 1.29 should be 3.49. 28. p. 436. Remove 127-130 from the index entry for charmonium. 29. On the back cover. In the second last bullet point, replace "beta decays" by "for B decays and". This is correct in the 2009 edition.

    Some (but not all) of the corrections above can be found on Shaws web page http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/u/graham/ppbook/errors11.html

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