Standard Model in Particle Physics

Christopher C. Bernido is from Research Center for Theoretical Physics, Central Visayan Institute Foundation, and Department of Physics, University of San Carlos.

Four-Dimensional World: the Arena for Relativistic Particles.- Unifying Quantum Mechanics and Special Relativity: The Klein-Gordon Equation.- Quantum Relativistic Equation for Spin ½ Particles: The Dirac Equation.- Symmetries of the Lagrangian Density.- Lagrangian Density for Scalar Fields.- The Dirac Lagrangian and Global Invariance.- U(1) Gauge Theory: Electromagnetism.- Non-Abelian Gauge Theory.- Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking.- Higgs Mechanism.- Elementary Particles in Nature.- Weinberg-Salam Model: The Good and Bad Generators.- Weinberg-Salam Model: Mass of the Gauge Fields and Electron.- Quantum Chromodynamics: The ¿U(3) Gauge Theory of Strong Interaction.- The Standard Model and Beyond.