PHYS 461 Elementary Particle Physics

3 semester hours

Historical introduction. Symmetries and conservation laws. Feynman diagrams and rules. Quantum electrodynamics. The parton model. Quantum chromodynamics. Weak interactions and electroweak unification. Gauge theories and the Standard Model.

Lecture, 3 hours.

Prerequisite: PHYS 301 or PHYS 321 or concurrent enrollment.

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