Weeks | Topics |
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Criterion for elementarity, Hadrons, leptons and gauge fields, Standard model, Strong, weak, electromagnetic and gravitational interactions
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2 |
Resonances, Baryons and mesons, Baryon numbers and lepton numbers, The lepton spectrum, Units
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3 |
Relativistic kinematics, Applications to scattering and decay processes
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4 |
Feynman diagrams
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5 |
Dirac equation
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6 |
Isospin, strangeness, The quark model, charm and higher flavours, Resonances
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7 |
Midterm exam
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8 |
The structure of the proton, Colliding beam experiments, QCD and gluons, Confinement
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Parity violation in weak interactions, K mesons and CP violation
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10 |
Electroweak theory, W and Z bosons, Higgs field
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Lagrange formulation of classical particle mechanics
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Lagrangians in relativistic field theory
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Local gauge invariance
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14 |
Grand unified theories (GUT) and proton decay, The great success but fundamentally unsatisfactory nature of the standard model, The solar neutrino problem and massive neutrinos, Supersymmetry, strings and superstrings
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