SUBJECT
Title
Fields and particles
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
2
Recommended in
Semester 2
Typically offered in
Spring semester
Course description
Variaional principle of ield theory, Symmetries and conservaion laws, Classiicaion of elementary paricles and interacions, Quantum electrodynamics and the photon, Weak interacion and the neutrinos, Strong interacion (quarks and hadrons), Symmetry breaking, Foundaions of the Standard Model
Readings
- L.B. Okun: Leptons and quarks (North Holland 1984)
- D.H. Perkins: Introducion to high energy physics (Addison-Wesley 1987)
- O. Nachtmann: Elementary paricle physics (Springer, 1987)