Introduction to elementary particles has the merit that it gets one into the subject and the details can be mopped up later it is somewhat weak in scholarship and the understanding of the subject is perhaps not very strong it is quite like the authors book on electrodynamics in that regard but both texts are useful. This modern introduction to particle physics equips students with the skills needed to develop a deep and intuitive understanding of the physical theory underpinning contemporary experimental results the fundamental tools of particle physics are introduced and accompanied by historical profiles charting the development of the field theory and experiment are closely linked with descriptions . The standard model of particle physics which classifies elementary particles into several groups is at the core of modern physics in this model three of the four fundamental forces of physics are described along with gauge bosons the particles that mediate those forces. Introduction elementary particle physics elementary particle physics addresses the question what is matter made of on the most fundamental level which is to say on the smallest scale of size its a remarkable fact that matter at the subatomic level consists of tiny chunks with vast empty spaces in between even more remarkable these tiny chunks come in a small number of different