Theory lecture 1

25 Fevereiro 2022, 08:30 João Nuno Ramalho Gonçalves Pires

  • Elementary particles of the Standard Model and the fundamental interactions
  • Conservation Laws in the Standard Model
  • Standard Model vertices and Feynman diagrams
  • System of Natural Units used in Particle Physics
  • Review of Special Relativity: Lorentz transformations, metric tensor and covariant and contravariant vectors
  • Mandelstam s,t,u variables
  • Fixed target and Circular Collider experiments 
Recommended reading: Chapters 1 and 2 of Mark Thomson's book. Chapter's 2 and 3 of D.Griffith's book.