Course Description

PH450: Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics

This course serves to introduce the basic concepts of elementary particle physics. Topics includes quarks and leptons as the basic building blocks of matter, phenomenology of the electroweak and strong interactions, the standard model, physics beyond the standard model such as grand unification, super-symmetry and neutrino masses.

Topical prerequisites: PH301 Quantum Mechanics I and PH302 Quantum Mechanics II.