Theory of Fundamental Interactions

3x 45 min lectures plus 1x 45 min exercises, weekly

lecture Mon 12:00 - 14:00 and Tue 14:00 - 15:00 in room 268  (=> 38 units of 45 mins)
exercises bi-weekly Wed 08:15 - 09:45 in room 267 (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: 11. April 2023

course layout:

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

level 2: The edifice of physical theories (weeks 2-3)
         Bird's eye view of the Standard Model (weeks 4-5)

toolbox: Groups & algebras (week 6)
         Lagrangians & Hamiltonians (week 7)
         Cross sections and amplitudes (week 8)

level 3: Fermion fields (week 9)
         Feynman graphs (week 10)
         Quantum chromodyamics (weeks 11-12)
         Electroweak interactions (weeks 13-14)

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

optional seminar: Mon 16-18 in room 268 (by Gabriel Picanco Costa), 3 credits