Particle Physics

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course is an introduction for advanced undergraduate physics majors to the field of particle physics. Topics will include relativistic collisions, symmetries of elementary particles, quantum mechanical description of scattering processes, a survey of fundamental particles, and the history of their discovery. Students will learn the Feynman rules for quantum electrodynamics, as well as the main ingredients of the Standard Model: electroweak theory and quantum chromodynamics. Along the way, basics of classical and quantum field theory will be discussed.