PHY 826
Particle Physics
3
Course Description
The Standard Model: Elementary particles (quarks; leptons; antiparticles and hadrons).
Course Outline
The Standard Model: Elementary particles (quarks; leptons; antiparticles and hadrons); Forces of nature (electromagnetic; strong; weak; gravity); Gauge Bosons (photons; gluons; W+ and Zo; graviton); Strength and range of interactions; Theoretical framework; Natural limits; Four vectors; Electromagnetic Interaction: QED; Feynman diagrams; Vertices; Perturbation theory; Renormalization; Weak Interactions: Charged currents; Parity violations; Weak interaction of leptons and quarks; Neutral currents; Electroweak unification and the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model; W+ and Zo bosons; Precision tests of the standard models in e+e-; Strong Interaction: QCD; Gluons and colour; Properties of QCD (quarks confinement; asymptotic freedom and hadrons); Strong interaction vertices; Running coupling constants; Quark model of hadrons: light quark meson; Baryons: Mesons; masses and magnetic moments; Hadron resonances; The c and b-quarks; Beyond the Standard Model: the Higgs boson; Neutrino oscillations; Grand Unification (proton decay); Supersymmetry