Other useful textbooks

If you don't have time to check out all, try the ones with bold face.

The following three do not cover the quantized fields:

• 'Introduction to Elementary Particles' by D. Griffiths. John Wyley, 1987.
  Upper undergraduate level. Lovely book to learn elementary use of Feynman diagrams, but does not show 'why' the technique works from the first principles.
• 'Leptons and Quarks' by L. B. Okun. North-Holland, 1982.
  Extremely elegant and useful book. So much is in such a small volume. It also has one of the most concise and efficient introductions to the gauge theory and standard model. Mostly phenomenology.
• 'Quarks and Leptons' by F. Halzen and A.D. Martin. John Wiley 1984.
  Mostly phenomenology, but quite well executed.

The following three are based on quantized fields and emphasis is on phenomenology:

• 'Gauge Theories in Particle Physics' by Aitchison and Hey. Adam Hilger, 1989.
  Includes a brief introduction to quantized fields. The rest is more or less similar to Halzen and Martin.
• 'Particle Physics and Introduction to Field Theory' by T. D. Lee. Harwood, 1981.
  A brilliant book which does not (usually) skip logic. It contains sections on symmetries C, P, T which are without equal in its clarity and trueness.
• 'Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle Physics' by T-P Cheng and L-F Li. Oxford, 1984.
  Lots of advanced topics. Probably a good book for professional phenomenologists but also a nice reference resource for experimentalists.

The following three are theoretical and intend to build up the whole theory from ground up:

• 'Quantum Field Theory' by Itzykson and Zuber. McGrow-Hill 1980.
  One of the 'standard' field theory text books.
• 'Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Field Theory' by Franz Gross. John Wiley 1993.
  Easier to read than Itzykson and Zuber.
• 'The Quantum Theory of Fields Vol. 1,2' by Steven Weinberg (Cambridge Press). A monumental effort by a true genius of our time. It covers most of the topics of this course and more at slightly higher level. It has remarkably small amount of logic skipping which makes it easier to read if you are interested in true understanding.
• 'Qunatum Field Theory' by Ryder, Cambridge 1985. A good supplement to this course since it is mostly based on path-integral quantization which is not covered in this course (at least not part I).

The following 'booklet' by Veltman stands out on its own as a unique introduction to field theory and it calculational basics:

• 'Diagramatica' by M.Veltman. Cambridge, 1994.

There are MANY others.