Theory of elementary particles
Graduate course, Wroclaw University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, 2021
Introduction to theory of elementary particles (30h of lecture and 30h of classes). The course consists of:
- Intuition, kinematics, classification of particles, etc.
- S-matrix and cross-section formula, QED Feynman rules
- Discrete symmetries: C, P, T
- Lie groups and representation theory
- Quark model, particles spectrum
- Parton model
- QCD
- Goldstone theorem
- Gauge theory and spontaneous symmetry breaking – Higgs mechanism
- Fermi model
- SU (2) × U (1) symmetry and electroweak interactions
- Elements of the standard model
- Neutrino oscillations