SUBJECT
Title
Weak interaction
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
4
Recommended in
Semester 3
Typically offered in
Autumn semester
Course description
Historical review, conserved quantum numbers and selection rules, muon decay, strangeness conserving semi leptonic processes, beta decay, conserved vector current, axial form factors, semi leptonic decays of kaons and hyperons, non leptonic kaon decays and the neutral K meson, GIM mechanism, tau lepton b quark and the flavour families, the KM matrix, the limits of current current theory, spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism, the bosonic and fermionic sectors of the SW model, the foundations of grand unification.
Readings
required readings:
- L.B. Okun: Lepton and quarks (North Holland, 1984)
- T.P. Cheng and L.F. Li: Gauge theory of elementary particle physics (Oxford Univ. Press, 1988)
- W. Greiner, B. Müller: Gauge theory of weak interactions (Springer, 1993)