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Notion of elementaryfundamental particle becomes ambiguous composite gauge. The last decades of research in particle physics have led to a vast landscape of extensions of the sm. Center for field theory and particle physics fudan. His explanatory technique of using different colors to represent different fields is a stroke of pedagogical genius. Concepts and basic techniques are developed through applications in elementary particle physics, and condensed matter physics. The classification rests on a fundamental spinstatistics theorem of quantum field theory and keeps these two types of particles distinct from each other. The symmetry and simplicity of the laws of physics and the. You should integrate over all possible paths that a particle takes. Schroeder, an introduction to quantum field theory this is a very clear and comprehensive book, covering everything in this course at the right level. This is in contrast 10 particle field theory, which sums over both. Mass is just a special form of energy, the energy of a body at rest. Elementary particle physics from theory to experiment carlos wagner physics department, efi and kicp, univ. Quantum field theory is the framework that we normally use to study particle physics. Motivated by the gauge hierarchy problem, scenarios like supersymmetry, compositehiggs models and models with warped extra dimensions have played a prominent role.
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