Course Identification

Title:

Elementary particles 1

Code:

20191092

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Prof. Yosef Nir

TA's:

Dr. Avital Dery, Shahaf Aharony Shapira

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2019

Semester:

Second Semester

When / Where:

Monday, 09:15 - 11:00, Weissman, Auditorium
Thursday, 09:15 - 11:00, Drori Auditorium

Tutorials
Thursday, 14:15 - 16:00, Drori Auditorium

First Lecture:

11/04/2019

End date:

25/07/2019

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

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

Comments

On Thursday, July 18th, the tutorial will be held at seminar room B.

Prerequisites

No

Restrictions

Participants:

30

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

02/08/2019

Location

Weissman, Seminar Rm A,Weissman, Seminar Rm B

Time

1000-1400

Remarks

N/A

Scheduled date 2

Date / due date

14/08/2019

Location

Weissman, Seminar Rm A,Weissman, Seminar Rm B

Time

1000-1400

Remarks

N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

4

Syllabus

1. Symmetries and their consequences

2. The electron and electromagnetic interactions

2. Quarks and strong interactions

3. Leptons and electroweak interactions

4. The Standard Model

5. Electroweak precision measurements

6. Flavor physics

7. Neutrino physics

8. Dark matter

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:

Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the Standard Model, construct extensions of it, extract the particle spectrum, type of interactions and accidental symmetries of the model, and calculate the rates of various relevant processes.

Reading List

N/A

Website

N/A