SUBJECT
Title
Particle physics
Type of instruction
lecture + practical
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
4
Recommended in
Semester 1
Typically offered in
Autumn semester
Course description
Characterization of interactions, their field theoretic description, symmetries and conservation laws, discrete symmetries and the parity or the CP violation, low mass particles, strangeness, the barion and lepton numbers, the basis of the group theoretic description, non relativistic quark model, the Gell-Mann-Okubo mass formula, quantization of the electromagnetic field, light emission and absorption, quantization of fermionic fields, electron electron scattering, the Compton effect, electron positron annihilation
Readings
- W. Greiner, J. Reinhardt: Quantum Electrodynamics (Springer, 1994)
- D.H. Perkins: Introduction to High Energy Physics (Addison-Wesley, 1987)
- T.P. Cheng, L.F. Li: Gauge theory of elementary particle physics (Oxford Univ. Press, 1988)