Particle Physics in 17 Hours

------------------------------------------------------------ Lecture Notes (available soon): https://www.physix.it/lecture_notes ------------------------------------------------------- 00:00 - Overview & Summary 00:04:50 Books Used 00:08:13 What is this course about? 00:10:54 Complete Summary I - Quantum Mechanics 00:51:56 Probability Amplitude (wave function) 01:07:06 Free Particle and Operators (E, p) 01:20:43 The Schrödinger Equation 01:31:53 Superposition and Uncertainty Principle II - Special Relativity 01:43:37 Rotations in 2D 02:02:56 Invariance and Covariance 02:11:13 Lorentz Transformations 02:39:39 Relativistic Maxwell Equations 03:06:31 Schrödinger VS Relativity III - Relativistic Quantum Mechanics 03:10:54 Relativistic Energy 03:15:51 Natural Units 03:28:58 Klein-Gordon Equation 03:39:44 Dirac Equation IV - Dirac Equation 04:34:01 Dirac Equation & Spin 04:56:02 Antiparticles in the Dirac Equation (p=0) 05:18:11 How to Treat the Negative Energy Solutions 05:36:20 Transformation of Spinors 05:40:43 General Solution to the Dirac Equation V - Quantum Field Theory 06:02:12 Understanding Fields: Scalar, Vector, Spinor 06:16:44 Lagrangian Mechanics 06:40:10 Least Action Principle 07:01:43 Lagrangian in Field Theory 07:24:34 Field Quantization 07:45:45 Creation and Annihilation of Particles VI - Quantum Electro-Dynamics (QED) 08:18:19 U(1) Global Symmetry 08:39:25 Local Gauge Symmetry - - U(1) 09:05:52 QED Lagrangian VII - Feynman Rules for QED 09:21:31 QED and Physical Processes 09:37:29 Building Blocks of Feynman Diagrams 10:09:55 Feynman Rules and Amplitudes 10:28:42 Tree-level and Loop Diagrams 10:44:21 Infinities in Loop Diagrams VIII - Weak Interaction 10:55:08 Beta Decay and Neutrinos 11:04:31 From Dirac to Weak Interaction 11:20:40 Global and Local SU(2) Symmetry 11:49:51 Charged Weak Interaction 12:09:35 Gauge Boson Self Interaction IX - Electroweak Unification 12:30:27 Left and Right Handed Chiral States 12:56:13 Electroweak Unification (GSW Model) 13:12:20 SU(2)L x U(1)Y Local Symmetry 13:35:20 Electroweak Lagrangian X - Higgs Mechanism 13:52:33 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking 14:25:08 Higgs Mechanism - - U(1) 14:44:47 Standard Model Higgs - - SU(2)L x U(1)Y 15:08:45 Fermion Masses 15:14:04 Gauge Boson Masses XI - Quantum Chromo-Dynamics (QCD) 15:38:45 Introducing Quarks 15:54:33 Confinement and Color Quantum Number 16:07:41 SU(3)C Global Symmetry 16:24:47 SU(3)C Local and QCD 16:33:12 SU(3)C x SU(2)L x U(1)Y - - Intuitive Explanation XII - The Standard Model 16:52:56 Gauge Fields and Self-Interactions 16:59:23 Quarks and Gauge Interactions 17:10:41 Leptons and Gauge Interactions 17:15:16 Higgs Mechanism - - Gauge Masses 17:20:05 Fermion Masses and Yukawa Interactions 17:23:09 Fermion Generations and Flavor Mixing 17:30:44 Final Remarks