Section 1.1 introduces four fundamental in-teractions and their characteristics. Section 1.2 introduces different elementary particles with their classifications. Conservation of various …

These lecture notes form the introduction to the CERN course. They cover the ba-sics of particle physics and are designed to be accessible to students with any scientific background. This …

Basic concepts Particle Physics Feynman diagrams In 1940s, R.Feynman developed a diagram technique for representing processes in particle physics. Main assumptions and requirements: …

These lectures will cover the core topics of Particle and Nuclear physics. Particle Physics is the study of Matter: Elementary particles Forces: Basic forces in nature Electroweak (EM & weak) …

The science of particle physics surged forward with the invention of particle accelerators that could accelerate protons or electrons to high energies and smash them into nuclei — to the …

Dirac Formalism, Chirality, Helicity, Why Higgs? (PDF) The lecture notes section lists the different topics taught during the course along with respective files for some of the lectures.

These notes provide a gentle, but detailed, introduction to particle physics, using little more than high school mathematics. They are written, in part, for the CERN summer school. Please do …

ts in both nuclear and particle physics. These include: the long-awaited discovery of the Higgs boson; substantial progress in neutrino physics and symmetry breaking in the weak …

“Pre-particle physics” A simplistic view on matter at 1900: Indivisible atoms form the matter molecules around us, combining only in certain proportions (Richter and Dalton). Avogadro’s …

We introduced the Standard Model of Particle Physics for the rst time: we described the three families (or generations or avours) of quarks and leptons. We discussed their properties such …

What are the fundamental building blocks of Nature? What are the interactions between them? Where does the mass of the particles originate? What is the structure of space and time? …

8.701 Fall 2020, Lecture 0.5. Early History and People in Nuclear and Particle Physics

Elementary-particle physics deals with the fundamental constituents of mat-ter and their interactions. In the past several decades an enormous amount of experimental information has …

MODEL of particle physics : • Explains all current experimental observations ! • Beautiful and simple ! • Forces explained by particle exchange • It is not the ultimate theory –m any mysteries

In 1936, Carl Anderson and Seth Neddermeyer observed a charged particle with intermediate mass in cosmic rays. Its mass was consistent with Yukawa’s meson but it did not interact with …

Particle physics is the current frontier of the reductionist approach to understanding matter and its interactions. The subject is dedicated to understanding what the most basic building blocks of …