Prerequisites for studying Quarks and Leptons (Halzen and Martin)

[nick25]

I study physics on my own and just ended up Griffiths' book on Quantum Mechanics. Is this level of QM enough to be able to study Halzen and Martin's Quarks and Leptons book on particle physics? I planned on studying it while studying Sakurai QM, but I just wanted to be sure that I could at least get started with some basic QM knowledge (I also assummed no other particle physics knowledge was necessary). Thanks in advance!

 

[George Jones]

I study physics on my own and just ended up Griffiths' book on Quantum Mechanics. Is this level of QM enough to be able to study Halzen and Martin's Quarks and Leptons book on particle physics?

The Preface of Halzen and Martin states "The primary purpose of this book is to introduce these ideas in the simplest possible way. We assume only a basic knowledge of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics and the theory of special relativity." Taken at face value, this seems to indicate that "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics" by Griffiths (and basic special relativity) should be sufficient.

More modern than Hazen and Martin, and at slightly lower level, is the second edition of the book "Introduction to Elementary Particles" by Griffiths (and also other recent books).