Official description

The subatomic particles; nuclei, baryons and mesons, quarks, leptons and bosons; the structure of nuclei and hadronic matter; symmetries and conservation laws; fundamental forces and interactions, electromagnetic, weak, and strong; a selection of other topics:  CP violation, nuclear models, standard model, proton decay, supergravity, nuclear and particle astrophysics.  This course is not a prerequisite for any PHY400-level course.