Course Nrs: 6780 (Lectures) and 6781 (Exercises)
These lectures describe the present status of our knowledge of the
basic constituents of matter and of the fundamental forces of nature
governing their interactions. The student
will become familiar with quarks and leptons, and with the gluons and
electroweak bosons which mediate the strong and electroweak forces.
Descriptions of
experimental investigations of a wide variety of physical phenomena will
serve to show how the discipline of particle physics developed during
the past century and provide the student with the background necessary
to follow future developments in this rapidly changing field.
Exercises
The exercise sets serve to exemplify and to quantify the physical concepts introduced in the accompanying lectures. They provide an essential understanding of the material by illustrating the degree of quantitative accuracy achieved by our present understanding of the forces of Nature and by providing the student with the benefit of learning-by-doing. Submission in written form of solutions to the exercise sets is prerequisite for receipt of the Certificate of Academic Credit.
e-mail: Jim.Crittenden@physik.uni-bonn.de