1 The Discovery of the Weak Interaction
1.1 The Universal Fermi Interaction
1.2 The Non-conservation of Parity
1.3 Biographical Notes
2 Leptonic Interactions
2.1 The Current-Current Interaction (Charged Currents)
2.2 The Decay ofthe Muon
2.3 The Lifetime ofthe Muon
2.4 Parity Violation in the Muon Decay
2.5 The Michel Parameters
2.6 The Tau Lepton
2.7 Biographical Notes
3 Limitations of Fermi Theory
3.1 Neutral Currents
3.2 Scattering ofa Muon Neutrino by an Electron
3.3 vμ-e-Scattering
3.4 High-Energy Behavior of Neutrino-Electron Scattering
3.5 Supplement: Scattering Formalism for Spin-1/2 Particles
3.6 Divergences in Higher-Order Processes
3.7 Biographical Notes
4 The Salam-Weinberg Theory
4.1 The Higgs Mechanism
4.2 The Yang-Mills Field
4.3 The Feynman Rules for Yang-Mills Theory
4.4 The Glashow-Salam-Wleinberg Model of Leptons
4.5 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: The Higgs Sector
4.6 Hidden SU(2)×U(1)Gauge Invariance
4.7 Biographical 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→μ+μ-
5.3 High-Energy Behavior of the GSW Theory
5.4 Biographical 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 Cabibbo's Theory of Flavor Mixing
6.5 Biographical Notes
7 Nuclear Beta Decay
7.1 The MIT Bag Model
7.2 Beta Decay of the Neutron
7.3 Nuclear Beta Decay
7.4 Properties of Allowed Beta Decays
7.5 Biographical Notes
8 The Neutral Kaon System
8.1 The Particles Ks and KL
8.2 CP violation
9 Unified Gauge Theories
9.1 Introduction: The Symmetry Group SU(5)