Physics
PHYS 7323: Elementary Particle Physics
Lecture - 4 credits
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- Presents a survey of the present state of elementary particle physics, suitable for all graduate students.
- Topics include overview of strong interactions and their connection to nuclear physics; nonrelativistic quark structure of strongly interacting particles (hadrons); color and the SU(3) Yang-Mills theory of strong interactions; coupling constant renormalization and asymptotic freedom; and the parton model of scattering.
- Covers weak interactions including phenomenology of the Fermi V-A theory; universality; and neutrino scattering.
- Studies the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam theory including unification of weak and electromagnetic interaction, neutral currents, the Higgs mechanism, quark masses and mixing, neutrino masses, and neutrino oscillation.
- Offers experimental support for the standard model.
- Also examines supersymmetry including the hierarchy problem and broken supersymmetry; role of supersymmetry in cosmology.
Presents a survey of the present state of elementary particle physics, suitable for all graduate students. Show more.