Books on electroweak and strong interactions (& QED)

[JD_PM]

Hi, I am looking for a book about the unified electroweak and strong interaction theories, dealing with the following:

• Gauge Theories.
• Intermediate Vector Boson Theory.
• Gauge Theory of Weak Interactions.
• Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking.
• The Standard Electroweak Theory.

I've basically quoted Mandl & Shaw chapters on the topic. I really like that book but I am looking for an extra source providing more insight and (if possible) more explicit examples and exercises (kind of Greiner's style in his book on Quantum Mechanics and symmetries). I've been looking for books and I've found two that look interesting

• Gauge Theory of Weak Interactions by Greiner and Müller.
• Introduction to Theory of Quantized Fields by Bogoliubov and Shirkov.

Should I get a copy of them? (they are not in my library so your opinion will be much appreciated) What are your personal-favourite books on electroweak and strong interactions?

Thanks

PS: I am also interested in books dealing mainly with QED so suggestions for such topic are also very welcomed.

 

[vanhees71]

Bogoliubov and Shirkov is a great early QFT textbook, but I don't think it's what you are looking at. It's mostly on QED and doesn't cover the rest of the Standard Model. Here I'd suggest a more recent textbook like

M. D. Schwartz, Quantum field theory and the Standard Model, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York (2014).

For a good more phenomenologically oriented review of the Standard Model, I'd suggest

O. Nachtmann, Elementary Particle Physics, Springer (1990)

perhaps complemented by more recent books on newer topics like neutrino oscillations and the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012.