Theory lecture 1
24 Fevereiro 2023, 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
Recommended reading: Chapters 1 and 2 of Mark Thomson's book. Chapter's 2 and 3 of D.Griffith's book.