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: …

What is Particle Physics and why do we study it? What are the Elementary particles? What are the basic building blocks of matter in the Universe? What are fundamental forces and how are …

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 …

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.

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 …

For graduate students unfamiliar with particle physics, An Introduc-tory Course of Particle Physics teaches the basic techniques and fundamental theories related to the subject. It gives students …

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

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 …

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 …

“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 …

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 …

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? …

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

ry particle physics has come of age. Although we obviously have much more to learn, there now exists a coherent and unified theoretical structure that is simply too exciting and important to …

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 …