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,e xams 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 teach...