If (hypothetically speaking) I wanted to teach myself about the Standard Model, what textbook(s) should I use, and what sort of course of study should I plan? I’ve taken QM and have studied a bit of group theory on my own, and plan to study it again more seriously when I have the time. (FWIW, I’m a molecular biologist/X-ray crystallographer.) Basically I’m trying to figure out if I need 1 or 2 math books and 1 more physics book before learning about the SM, or if it will take 20 of each.
-Ben
The standard model is being improved (or at least added to) by Quantum Chromodynamics.
Check:
Brookhaven National Labs. The RHIC should be working by now.
CERN. They are planning the Large Hadron Collider to replace the LE-P collider.
The Particle Group at Lawrence Berkeley.
You should get at least one book recommendation 
tcburnett,
Are you Cecil ?
I was going to make a little joke by referring you to a ‘supermodel’ website. But who did I find? Britney Spears. That effectively ruined the word ‘supermodel’ for me.
ROFLMAO! Thanks Bear, but I’m lucky if I’m smart enough to breathe, much less be a …er…THE…font of knowledge.
"Wait a sec. I’m having another ‘Senior Moment’.
HA!! I am not convinced. If you are Cecil’s Clark Kent disquise, that is exactly what I would expect you to say!! Come to think of it, you two are never around at the same time. Hmmmmmmm
I can prove it. If I WERE Cecil, I would have said…THE…font of ALL HUMAN knowledge.
I had an uncle named Cecil, but he was hanged in San…I MEAN, he would HANG OUT in San Antonio, not Chicago.
Also, read everything by Richard Feynman. Most of it deals with the Standard Model, and all of it is interesting and a good read.
Yep. Sorry I didn’t mention it. He, Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonago shared the 1965 Nobel prize in physics.
Thanks, Chronos.