- The student understands how to work with covariant and contravariant vectors
- The student learns how to perform transformations between different inertial systems and to make calculations for decays and collisions between particles using relativistic mechanics
- The student can identify the building blocks of the Standard Model, the leptons, the quarks, the gauge bosons and their quantum numbers
- The student is able to explain how different particles interact with matter
- The student is able to explain how modern particle detectors work
- The student can distinguish the three different interactions of the Standard Model, the electromagnetic, the weak and the strong and their force carriers
- The student can draw and interpret Feynman diagrams for basic interactions between subatomic particles
- The student can identify the main symmetries of the Standard Model and the notion of symmetry breaking
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The lectures start with the main tools needed to study subatomic physics, the accelerators. We will look at the working principles of the Van de Graaff, the Synchrotron, the Cyclotron and the Linear accelerator and their uses.
To detect the newly produced particles at these accelerators we will cover the passage of radiation through matter, which allows us to understand how the main particle detectors work. In the second part of the lectures we will study the structure of particles and nuclei and discuss fundamental symmetries and conservation laws.
Finally we will look at some of the practical applications of subatomic physics in other fields as well as its impact on astrophysics.
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