The Standard Model
physics
particle-physics
part3
Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Particles and gauge groups, spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs boson, Goldstone equivalence, electroweak symmetry breaking, CKM matrix, flavor physics, FCNCs, 4-Fermi theory, neutrino masses and oscillations, B-L, QCD, chiral symmetry breaking and chiral perturbation theory, chiral anomaly, anomaly cancellation, decays and how to approximate them, hadrons, colliders. These notes were originally written when I was studying for MIT’s Part 3 exam, and they were my general compendium knowledge notes for the exam; as such, there’s a lot of content in here.