This lecture provides a deeper introduction into particle and astroparticle physics, based on the knowledge obtained in EP-5.
Lecture contents:
- Recall of particle physics
- Covariant description of relativistic particles
- Electrodynamics of spinless particles
- Particles with spin 1/2: the Dirac equation
- QED with spin-1/2 particles
- The Weak Interaction
- Neutral weak currents and electroweak unification
- Gauge symmetries and Higgs mechanism