Theory of Fundamental Interactions

3x 45 min lectures plus 1x 45 (or 90) min exercises, weekly

lecture online Mon 12:00 - 14:30  (14 lectures of 3 units = 42 units)
exercises online Tue 16:00 - 17:30   (by Gabriel Picanco Costa)

credits: 5

requirement: active participation in most exercise classes

prerequisites: analytical mechanics, electrodynamics, quantum theory (I)

module: Selected Topics in Modern Physics

start: 12. April 2021

course layout:

level 1: The Universe as we know it (1 lecture)

level 2: The edifice of physical theories (2 lectures)
         Bird's eye view of the Standard Model (2 lectures)

toolbox: Groups & algebras (1 lecture)
         Lagrangians & Hamiltonians (1 lecture)
         Cross sections and amplitudes (1 lecture)

level 3: Fermion fields (1 lecture)
         Feynman graphs (1 lecture)
         Quantum chromodyamics (2 lectures)
         Electroweak interactions (2 lectures)

literature:
Andrei Smilga: Digestable Quantum Field Theory, Springer 2017