Physics 528: Elementary Particle Physics
Syllabus
General Information
Lectures:
TRIUMF (Main Office Building 220)
Remote (Zoom)
Tues+Thurs, 9:30-11:00am (Pacific Time)
Jan. 6 - Apr. 9, 2026
Instructor:
David Morrissey
TRIUMF, MOB 229
(604) 222-7697
dmorri_att_triumf.ca
Teaching Assistant:
TBA
Office Hours:
TBD
Outline
- Review of QFT basics and QED
- Calculation Bootcamp
- Symmetries in particle physics
- Generalizing QED: non-Abelian gauge theories
- Spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism
- The structure of the Standard Model
- Electroweak and Higgs physics
- Loops and effective field theories
- QCD, from high to low energy and back
- Collider Physics
- Beyond the Standard Model
Prerequisites
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PHYS 506, 508, or 526.
You should be familiar with obtaining Feynman rules from a Lagrangian,
and know how to compute scattering amplitudes in QED.
Grading Scheme
- 75% Homework Assignments
- 25% Final Report and Presentation
Course Notes
- Notation and Background
- Review of QFT
Homework Assignments
Final Project
Report and presentation.
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