Particle Physics: Autumn 2006

• Introduction to the Standard Model particles and their interactions
• Interactions of radiation with matter
• Detectors and detection techniques
• Quark model and symmetries, historical development of the subject
• Data reduction, statistics
• Electrodynamics of spinless particles
• Dirac equation
• Electrodynamics of spin 1/2 particles
• Weak Interactions
• Electroweak Interactions and the Standard Model
• Physics at low center-of-mass energies
• Monte Carlo techniques
• Special topics: B physics, neutrino physics