Introduction to Elementary Particles

PHYS 545 Spring 2010
Instructor: Professor Paul H. Frampton


The principal goal is to understand the standard model (SM)
and why discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron
Collider (LHC) is anticipated and what else LHC may find.

SYLLABUS

  1. Lagrangians.
  2. Gauge invariance
  3. Non-abelian gauge theories.
  4. Dirac spinors.
  5. SM Lagrangian.
  6. Electroweak theory.
  7. Higgs mechanism.
  8. QCD.
  9. Renormalization group.
10. Model building beyond the SM.

BOOKS

Modern Elementary Particle Physics by G.L. Kane.
Gauge Field Theories (3rd Edition) by P.H. Frampton.

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