Introduction to the Standard Model

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Department of Physics

Synopsis:

Particles, leptons, hadrons, baryons, mesons, symmetry, symmetry group, quarks, gluons, partons, standard model of electroweak and strong interactions, quantum chromodynamics (QCD), cross section, scattering cross section.

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Syllabus of lectures:

1.Lagrangean formalism, Canonical formalism

2.Symmetries in physics

3.Symmetries and the conservation laws

4.Symmetry and classification of particles. Multiplets

5.Compact Lie groups, represenations, SU(3)

6.SU(3) representations as particle multiplets

7.Quarks

8.More quark types (flavours) - the SU(4) model

9.Abelian and non-abelian gauge theories

10.Quantum electrodynamics, Quantum chromodynamics (QCD)

11.Electroweak theory

12.The Standard Model = QCD + the Electroweak theory

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1.J. Hořejší: Fundamentals of Electroweak Theory, Universitas Carolinae, Prague 2003

2.J. Chýla: Quarks, partons and Quantum Chromodynamics (lecture notes, Faculty of Mathematics and Physic), Charles Univ., Prague 2003, http://wwwhep2.fzu.cz/Theory/notes/text.pdf) and books recommended therein at p. 5, especially Tai-Pei Cheng, Ling-Fong Li: Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle Physics, Claredon Press, 1984 Chris Quigg: Gauge theories of strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions, Benjamin, 1983

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