Short Course on Particle Physics

First Edition

Introductory course on elementary particle physics

Virtual Zoom, Jan 20 -  Mar 3, 2024

Time : 8.15 AM EDT / 2.15 PM CET / 6.45 PM IST / 10.15 PM JST 

Registration is now closed

There is no registration fee and no certificate will be given.

Participants Attended : 35

Timetable Supplementary Material Resources Code of Conduct

All Lectures will be delivered on Digital White board.  

Week 1 :

Jan 20  - Lecture I : Forces & Particles 

Jan 21 - Lecture II : Feynman Diagram

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Week 2 :

Jan 27 - Lecture III : 4-Vectors

Jan 28 - Lecture IV : Lagrangian & Fields

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Week 3 :

Feb 3 - Lecture V :  Gauge Invariance

Feb 4 - Lecture VI : QED Lagrangian

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Week 4 :

Feb 10 - Lecture VII : Electroweak Lagrangian - I

Feb 11 - Lecture VIII : Glashow-Weinberg-Salam Model & Electroweak Lagrangian - II

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Week 5 :

Feb 17 - Lecture IX : Higgs Mechanism 

Feb 18 -  Lecture X : Fermion Masses, QCD & Standard Model Lagrangian

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Week 6 :

Feb 24 - Lecture XI : Neutrino Oscillation

Feb 25- Lecture XII : Neutrino Oscillation Experiments

Feb 25 - Student Presentations 

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Week 7 :

Mar 2 - Lecture XIII : Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay 

Mar 3- Discussion

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Recommended Book :

• Nuclear and Particle Physics - Burcham and Jobes, Longman Scientific & Technical, 1995.

Supplementary Books :

• Modern Elementary Particle Physics - Gordon Kane, second edition

• Introduction to Elemenatry Particles - David Griffiths

Founder & Organizer 

Ibrahim Mirza

Email : mmirza3@vols.utk.edu