Particle Physics postgraduate course SEMFE-INPP
- Giorgos Anagnostou, Institute of Nuclear & Particle Physics (INPP), NCSR Demokritos
- email: georgios.anagnostou@cern.ch
- office: Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, 1st floor building 6
- telephone: 210-6503514
Description
This is a graduate-level course on particle physics, including the fundamental forces and particles.
Course Meeting Times
- Taught: Spring Semester
- Duration: 26 lectures (2 hours each)
- Timetable: 9:30-11:30 on Mondays and Tuesdays
- "ktirio sholis", 1st floor, building 19
Bibliography
- Quarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics, F. Halzen
and A. D. Martin, Ed. Wiley
- Gauge Theories in Particle Physics, I.J.R. Aitchison and A.J.G. Hey
- Modern Particle Physics, Mark Thomson, Cambridge University Press
- Introduction to Elementary Particles, D. Griffiths, Ed. Wiley
- Lecture notes written by Marcel Merk (Nikhef)
For a reminder of Special Relativity have a look at these suggested books .
Calendar
- Introduction
- Antiparticles
- QED for spinless particles
- Dirac equation
- QED for particles with spin
- Renormalization
- The structure of hadrons
- QCD
- Weak interactions
- Electroweak interactions
- Gauge theories - Higgs mechanism
- Standard Model
- Beyond Standard Model
Grading