Physics 226: Particles and Symmetries
Overview
This course provides an introduction to the fundamental constituents of
matter and the symmetries which characterize their interactions.
Topics include fundamental symmetries of nature (such as
Lorentz invariance, CPT, and baryon and lepton number conservation),
the "building blocks" of the current Standard Model of nuclear and particle
physics: quarks, gluons and leptons,
the importance of symmetries in characterizing the interactions
of particles, and key experimental evidence on which the Standard Model
is based.
Course notes for Particles and Symmetries were originally developed by Laurence G. Yaffe,
starting in 2008.
Course notes