PH540 -Elementary particle physics

Instructors: P Ramadevi

Course name: Elementary particle physics

Course code: PH 540

Course type: Theory (elective)

Credits: 6

Pre-requisites:QM 1 and 2 is a must, QM 3 also helps.

Course content:
Introduction to the four interactions in nature, motivation for unification, Relativistic Kinematics, Parity, charge conjugation and angular momentum conservation, the quark model, fermions and bosons categorization, Feynman rules for you model and QED, Weinberg-Salam-Glashow model.

Other topics:

Books:
Elementary Particle Physics by David Griffiths

Online study material:

Lectures:
The prof usually taught on board but also used slides occasionally.

Assignments,exams and grading:
There were regular tutorial sheets given, from which some problems had to be solved and submitted as assignments.
Assignments: 10%
One quiz: 10%
Midsem: 30%
Endsem: 40%
Presentation on a related topic: 10 %

Follow up courses:

Pro tips:

Personal comments:The prof's teaching style seems a little vague at times. Read from the textbook regularly for more clarity.

Correspondent: Manu Srivastava