Course Identification

Title:

Elementary particles 1

Code:

20241102

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Prof. Yosef Nir

TA's:

Yehonatan Viernik

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2024

Semester:

Second Semester

When / Where:

Sunday, 09:15 - 11:00, Weissman, Auditorium
Tuesday, 11:15 - 13:00, Weissman, Seminar Rm B

Tutorials
Thursday, 09:00 - 10:30, Weissman, Auditorium

First Lecture:

07/04/2024

End date:

09/07/2024

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Physical Sciences: 6.00 points
Chemical Sciences: Elective; 6.00 points

Comments

On June 25 the course will take place at Astrophysics room.

Prerequisites

No

Restrictions

Participants:

40

Language of Instruction

English

Attendance and participation

Expected and Recommended

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Assignments:

50%

Final:

50%

Evaluation Type

Examination

Scheduled date 1

Date / due date

18/07/2024

Location

Weissman, Seminar Rm A,Weissman, Seminar Rm B

Time

0900-1500

Remarks

N/A

Scheduled date 2

Date / due date

09/08/2024

Location

Weissman, Seminar Rm A

Time

0900-1500

Remarks

N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

6

Syllabus

1. Lagrangians

2. Abelian symmetries and QED

3. Non-Abelian symmetries and QCD

4. Spontaneous symmetry breaking and the leptonic standard model

5. The Standard Model (SM)

6. Beyond the SM and the SM effective field theory (SMEFT)

7. Flavor changing neutral currents

8. Neutrino Physics

9. Particle cosmology: Dark matter and the baryon asymmetry of the Universe

Learning Outcomes

Good knowledge of the SM
Good understanding of the principles of model building in particle physics
Appreciation of the SM as a scientific masterpiece

Reading List

N/A

Website

N/A