Fall 2025 (on-going)
Topics
- Particle Physics for Babies
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The Standard Model of particle physics
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Gauge Theory: symmetry, charge and boson exchange
- Quantum Mechanics 101
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Unitary Operations
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Fermi Golden Rule
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Green’s Functions
further topics
- Lessons from Fermi’s theory
- Spectrum of Hadrons: SU(3) Flavor Symmetry and the Eight-Fold Way
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flavor symmetry
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color symmetry
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Chiral Symmetry and its spontaneous breaking
- Topics in Nuclear Physics
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Liquid Drop Model
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Fermi Gas Model
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Relativistic Mean Field
- Dense Matter
- degenerate Fermi system
- Heavy Ion Collision and QCD phase diagram
- notes: overview
Healthy Food for Thoughts
- How to Renormalize the Schroedinger Equation (peak of human civilization!)
- NJL models
- Renormalization Group
- Swimming with Quarks
- Functional Methods and SDEs
- large N models
- Bound States
- EFT: few Nucleons
- chiral effective field theory and nuclear forces
- baryogenesis
