Introduction to QCD: Flavour symmetries

15 Abril 2020, 08:30 Nuno Barros

  • Symmetries in Particle physics: Noether's theorem
  • Notions of group theory
  • Quark flavour symmetry
    • Isospin and SU(2)
    • Describing mesons from quarks
    • SU(3) and hyper charge
    • Light uds mesons
    • Building baryons wavefunctions
  • Introduction to QCD 
    • Basic principles of QCD : Local gauge principle
    • Color and color confinement