SEMF | Gauge Symmetries & Standard Model (3/5) | Adriana Bariego | Summer School 2022 @SEMF | Uploaded July 2022 | Updated October 2024, 59 minutes ago.
Short course kindly contributed by Adriana Bariego Quintana in SEMF's 2022 Summer School

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COURSE ABSTRACT
The Standard Model (SM) is the one which describes with the highest accuracy the behaviour and existence of most of the elementary particles that define our universe. This model incorporates quantum mechanics, gauge symmetry, group theory and special relativity; it also postulates a great number of experimentally found symmetries related to particle properties. In this brief course I will give an introduction to the main symmetries that SM is based on. We will start with abelian symmetries, such as the U(1) symmetry to give an explanation to the electromagnetic force. Then, we will see how non-abelian theories work, such as QCD described with the SU(3) symmetry. And finally, we will see that by breaking the Electroweak symmetry SU(2)L×U(1)Y the Higgs field gives mass to the elementary particles in the universe. All the above will be used to develop some of the different terms in the SM lagrangian to see how Particle Physics works.

MATERIALS
· Course program: drive.google.com/file/d/1bd0m-C4f7JWmEsX8OwtLnytuSvlX_OKL/view

ADRIANA BARIEGO QUINTANA
Master's student at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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