PHYS 5260: Particle and Nuclear Physics
Credits: 4. Contact Hours: Lecture 4.
Basic properties and structures of nuclei, hadrons, and elementary particles; weak and strong interactions; the Standard Model; accelerators and detectors; nuclear models; nuclear decay and stability; nuclear astrophysics; the Higgs mechanism; the CKM matrix; running coupling constants; relativistic heavy-ion collisions; selected topics beyond the standard model such as SUSY and grand unification. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)