Standard Model: Course Outline (PHY-710)

Ingredients of the Standard Model, Quarks and leptons, Mesons and baryons, Exchange of virtual particles, Strong, electromagnetic and weak interactions, Relativistic kinematics, Invariant mass, thresholds and decays, Conservation laws, Angular momentum, Baryon number, lepton number, Strangeness, Isospin, Parity, charge conjugation and CP, The quark model, Super multiplets, Resonances, formation, production and decay, Heavy quarks, charm, bottom and top, Experimental evidence for quarks, Color, confinement and experimental value, Weak interactions, Parity violation, Helicity, CP violation, K0 and B0 systems, The Standard Model and beyond, Quark-lepton generations, Neutrino oscillations, The Higgs boson, Grand Unified Theories, Supersymmetry.