PHYS 663 Advanced Particle Physics (Ph.D.)

Quark model of hadrons, solutions, bag models. Gluon exchange, mass formulae, quark masses, heavy quarks.  Quark-parton model, deep inelastic electron-nucleon scattering, scaling, corrections to scaling behavior, jets.  Chiral symmetry, chiral symmetry breaking, quark masses.

 

References: 

Quarks and Leptons, Francis Halzen and Alan D. Martin, Wiley, 1984

Modern Particle Physics, Mark Thomson, Cambridge University Press, 2013