[lr1970]

> Looking at a recent page of that course, the recomended books are * F. Halzen, A. Martin, “Quarks and Leptons: An introductory course in modern particle physics” (Wiley 1984) * D. Griffiths, “Introduction to elementary particles” (Wiley 1987)

It is telling that for a recent course the recommended books are over 35 years old. Consistent with the OP proposition.

[wrycoder]

Rather like Jackson is still a standard electrodynamics text after 60 years. Classical EM is finished. But, quantum field theory is not.

[gus_massa]

The complete list is

* F. Halzen, A. Martin, “Quarks and Leptons: An introductory course in modern particle physics” (Wiley 1984)

* D. Griffiths, “Introduction to elementary particles” (Wiley 1987)

* J.J. Sakurai, “Advanced quantum mechanics” (Addison Wesley 1967).

* P.E. Hodgson, et al., “Introductory nuclear physics” (Oxford 1997).

* H. Frauenfelder, E.M. Henley, “Sub-atomic Physics” (Prentice Hall 1992)

IIRC the Sakurai book is more about generic quantum mechanics, but he has two books, I'm not sure if this has more about particle physics. The other two are more modern, but I don't remember them. I also tried to keep the list short, because usually the main book of the course cover most of the topics.

Anyway, it's a mandatory undergraduate course for everyone that want to be a Physics. If you want to learn cutting edge particle physics, you should take one or two optative course about the topic, then make a one year undergraduate thesis, then take a 5 years PhD, and then perhaps 2 years of a postdocs. So the cutting edge is like 8 years away.