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History 181B:  Modern Physics
Class 42 (4/30/01)
Particle physics
(There is no Class 41.)
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Outline Rethinking quantum field theory

     Renormalization:  QED and beyond
     Renormalizability as a criterion for theories
     New particles and forces
     New strategies for bringing order
     The rise and fall (and rise again) of QFT

The Standard Model (start)

     Electroweak theory
          Gauge invariance and gauge field theories
          A gauge field theory of the weak interaction
          Electroweak unification
          The Higgs field

Names and terms
Primary Secondary
4 forces:  gravity, EM, weak, strong
S-matrix theory
vector bosons:  Ws, Z
SU(2) × U(1)
spontaneous symmetry breaking
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