Department of Physics

10ΕΚ412 Elementary Particles     

Course Webpage: https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/PHYS236

Course Content

• Review: The Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations, antiparticles and spin, Feynman diagrams.
• Leptons and quantum electrodynamics (QED).
• Higher order corrections.
• Hadrons and quantum chromodynamics (QCD).
• Weak interactions.
• Electroweak theory: SU(2)⋅U(1), the W^±, Z⁰ and γ bosons. Spontaneous symmetry breaking. Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism. 
• The full Standard Model. The physics of W and Z. Production and decay of b and t quark. Discovery of Higgs boson.
• CP, CPT symmetry. Mixing of neutral kaons and B mesons.  Discovery of CP violation in the kaon system. CP violation in other systems. Neutrino oscillations. Nature of neutrinos (Majorana/Dirac) and masses.