* Topics of the course
- The Standard Model
Properties of weak
interactions
Spontaneous
symmetry breaking and the origin of mass
Higgs mechanism
The W and Z
bosons
Electroweak processes
Parton model and QCD
Processes in QCD
Coupling
constants and mass scale in QCD
- Physics of massive neutrinos: neutrino oscillations
- Grand Unified Teories
Motivations for grand
unification and models
From
grand unification scale to weak scale
Processes with violation of baryonic and/or leptonic numbers
- Supersymmetry
Motivations for
supersymmetry
Supersymmetry-breaking models
Supersymmetric particles: properties and their role in cosmology