Università Roma Tre

Symmetries and conservation laws, continuous and discrete trasforms, parity, charge conjugation, time reversal. Relativistic quantum equations, Klein-Gordon equation, Dirac equation, negative Energy solutions, helicity, non-relativistic limit, the spin, anti-particles. Solutions for zero mass, properties of neutrinos.
Relativistic perturbation theory, quantum electrodynamics, Feynman diagrams, the propagator. Relativistic expression of Rutherford cross section, Mott, Dirac and Rosenbluth cross section.
Cosmic rays, primary and secondary components, discovery of mesons. Properties of muon and pion, strange particles, isospin multiplets. Elementary particles and fundamental interactions, leptons and hadrons, mesons and baryons, anti-particles.
Hadronic interactions, isospin, the Yukawa model, pion-nucleon elastic scattering, the Delta resonance, baryonic and mesonic resonances, meson and baryon multiplets. Unitary symmetries, SU(2), SU(3), static quark model, u-d-s quarks, representation of baryons and mesons, magnetic moment of baryons, the colour of quarks.
Weak interactions, nuclear beta decay, Fermi and Gamow-Teller transitions, parity non-conservation, beta decay of polarized Co60. Helicity of the neutrino, V-A interaction. Muon decay, the Fermi constant. Pion decay, production of neutrino beams, leptonic number conservation, the two neutrinos e/mu. Neutrino interactions, the weak interaction propagator.
Particle decays in the quark model, weak decays of strange particles, the Cabibbo angle. K0 mesons, CP eigenstates, K0L and K0S mesons, the Glashow-Iliopoulos-Maiani hypothesis and the charm quark. CP-symmetry violation, the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa miixing matrix and the beauty quark.
Inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering, struccature functions, Bjorken scaling, the parton model, parton densities, Inelastic neutrino and anti-neutrino scattering, quark and anti-quark densities, the gluons.
Electron-positron interaction, scattering and annihilation, hadron production, quarkonium, the tau lepton, production of heavy quarks.
Particle production in hadronic interactions, Drell-Yan processes, hadronic jets, quantum chromodynamics. The top quark, the tau neutrino, the three generations.
Weak isospin and weak hypercharge, the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model, electro-weak unification, discovery of W and Z bosons. Electro-weak symmetry breaking, the Higgs field, discovery of the Higgs boson.

• W. E. Burcham and M. Jobes, Nuclear and Particle Physics, Pearson Education.
• Appunti del corso di Istituzioni di Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, http://webusers.fis.uniroma3.it/~ceradini/efns.htm