Section outline

    • Experimental methods in particle physics. Sources: cosmic rays, reactors and isotopes, accelerators. Extracted beams and colliders
    • Reminder of radiation detection techniques and detectors.
    • Brief history of the discovery of elementary particles and construction of the Standard Model. [Experiments: Conversi, Pancini, Piccioni; Powell; Cowen Reines, Andersen]
    • Photon, mesons, antiparticles, baryons, leptons, strange particles, quarks and gluons, intermediate vector bosons, Higgs bosons.
    • Main characteristics of the fundamental interactions and Standard Model phenomenology.
    • Forbidden and allowed diagrams in the SM.