Particles 2

Syllabus

• The flavor (family, generation) puzzle.
• Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa mixings.
• The GIM mechanism.
• K0-K0' mass difference, weak CP-violation.
• QCD, confinement, asymptotic freedom.
• Non-minimal extensions of the Glashow -Weinberg-Salam model.
• Strong CP-violation, the Axion model.
• Horizontal symmetries.
• Neutrino physics, the seesaw mechanism.
• Left-Right symmetry.
• Pati-salam model, B-L as the fourth color.
• Georgi-Glashow SU(5) minimal grand Unification.
• Proton decay, Neutron oscillations.
• SO(10), E(6) grand unifications.