PHYS2200
Elementary Particle Physics I [ Course Website ]
This is an introductory course in elementary particle physics. Only some elementary undergraduate level knowledge is required.
Course Outline:
Symmetries, Strong, Interactions
- Symmetries, Currents
- Isospin, SU(2), Group Theory
- SU(3) and Classification of Hadron
- Quarks
- Deep Inelastic e-p Scattering
Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions
- Leptonic Interactions, Phenomenological Lagrangians
- High Energy Neutrino Reactions
- Intermediate Vector Mesons
- Weinberg-Salam Model, Unified Theory of Electroweak Interactions
- Neutral Current Interactions
- Electroweak Interactions of Quarks, GIM Mechanism
Chiral Symmetry
- Current Algebra
- Goldberger-Trieman Relation
- Low Energy N Scattering
- PCAC, Chiral Symmetry Breaking
- Introduction to QCD
References:
- Leptons and Quarks, F. Halzen and A. Martin
- Guage Theories of the String, Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions, C. Quigg
