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In this part of the book, the electroweak interaction and the related currents were explored in depth, followed by a focus on the Higgs boson and its detection.

In this section, the problem of quark color and some of the related implications and symmetries were addressed. It was then shown how a hadron can be probed, along with the concepts of asymptotic freedom and confinement and some of their implications. Finally, the discussion of the part devoted to weak interactions, or rather electroweak interactions, was begun.

In this part one continued to talk about gauge transformations and the principle of inertia was derived from the symmetries analysed in the previous lecture. Then one approached the world of quarks and hadrons, baryon number, strangeness and strong isospin. Finally i studied the issue of quark colour and how it resolves the problem of the existence of baryons such as the Δ⁺⁺.

In this episode I read about synchrotrons, particle detectors and the particles of the Standard Model, their properties, such as charge, flavor, spin, color and weak isospin. I also learned about the four fundamental interactions, how particles are studied via decay products and key microscopic symmetries, including spacetime and internal symmetries, both global or local, continuous or discrete.

This section introduced the realm of the infinitely small, showing where it aligns with and diverges from classical physics and outlining some key ideas of quantum physics, for example the uncertainty principle. It refers to wave-particle duality, electronvolts, antiparticles, spin, different types of scattering, Rutherford’s experiment, nucleon structure, linear accelerators and cyclotrons.

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This section introduced the realm of the infinitely small, showing where it aligns with and diverges from classical physics and outlining some key ideas of quantum physics, for example the uncertainty principle. Then it talks about wave-particle duality, electronvolts, antiparticles, spin, different types of scattering, Rutherford’s experiment, nucleon structure, linear accelerators and cyclotrons.

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