Lecture 8

Elementary Particle Physics in a Nutshell

• Conservation laws
• Fundamental particles
  • hadrons = composites of quarks
    (cf. drinking song from Finnegan's Wake )
    Particle Data Group listings for baryons, mesons
    mesons in space!
  • leptons: PDG listings
• Fundamental interactions
  force-carrying bosons: PDG listings
• Relativistic kinematics