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PHYS164 HM - Particle Physics

Credit(s): 2

Instructor(s): Shuve

Offered: Spring

Description: A survey of the forces, particles, and structure of the Standard Model of particle physics. Topics of study include: Feynman diagrams, rates of particle interactions, and particle physics experiments; relativistic quantum mechanics of particles with spin; massive particles and the Higgs mechanism; phenomena of the strong and weak interactions.

Corequisite(s): PHYS116 HM