Lectures Slides
Slides presented during classes.
- Lecture 1 - Introduction
- Lecture 2 - Particle Physics: 1900 - 1964
- Lecture 3 - Cross-section and special relativity
- Lecture 4 - Units / Exercises 1
- Lecture 5 - Particle interactions with matter
- Lecture 6 - Accelerators and particle detectors
- Lecture 7- Non Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
- Lecture 8 - Relativistic Quantum Mechanics. Scatterings and Decays. Anti-particles
- Lecture 9 - Symmetries in Particle Physics. The Eightfold Way
- Lecture 10 - Exercises Class 2 (kinematics; detectors; isospin; Fermi Golden Rule)
- Lecture 11 - Deep inelastic scattering
- Lecture 12 - Klein Gordon and Dirac Equations
- Lecture 13 - Exercises Class 3
- Lecture 14 - Quantum field theory. Feynman rules for the ABC model and QED
- Lecture 15 - Applications of Feynman rules for QED. Gauge invariance
- Lecture 16 - Weak Interactions: From Fermi to the V-A theory
- Lecture 17 - Higgs mechanism. Electroweak theory.
- Lecture 18 - Exercises Class 4
- Lecture 19 - Discovery of the Z and W bosons
- Lecture 20 - Experimental tests to electroweak interactions and Higgs boson discovery
- Lecture 21 - Electroweak theory: examples
- Lecture 22 - Astroparticle: Ultra-high energy cosmic rays
- Lecture 23 - Exercises Class 5
- Lecture 24 - Neutrinos: oscillations and masses
- Lecture 25- Exercises Class 6