PHYSICS OF THE STANDARD MODEL
Academic Year 2015/2016 - 2° Year - Curriculum FISICA TEORICA
Teaching Staff: Paolo CASTORINA
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: FIS/04 - Nuclear and subnuclear physics
Taught classes: 48 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: FIS/04 - Nuclear and subnuclear physics
Taught classes: 48 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
Detailed Course Content
Path integral, functional formulation of field teories, scalar and Dirac fields, quantum electrodynamics, renormalization; abelian and non abelian gauge teories, functional formulations of gauge teories, spontaneous symmetry breaking, goldstone theorem , Higgs mechanism. Phenomenology of weak interactions. Standard model of electroweak interactions. Quarks and colors, Quantum Chromodynamics and asymptotic freedom. QCD phenomenology.
Textbook Information
Peskin and Schroeder
An introduction to Quantum Field Theory