J. F. Donoghue, E. Golowich and B. R. Holstein: Dynamics of the Standard Model, Second edition
The book begins with a pedagogic account of the Standard Model, introducing essential techniques such as effective field theory and path integral methods. It then focuses on the use of the Standard Model in the calculation of physical properties of particles. Rigorous methods are emphasized, but other useful models are also described.
Although the Standard Model is believed to be theoretically self-consistent [note 1] and has demonstrated some success in providing experimental predictions, it leaves some physical phenomena unexplained and so falls short of being a complete theory of fundamental interactions.
The Standard Model of particle physics is the theory describing three of the four known fundamental forces ( electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions – excluding gravity) in the universe and classifying all known elementary particles.