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QUANTUM FIELD THEORY A Crash Course by Hasan Mohammad

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In particle physics, the electroweak interaction is the unified description of two of the four known fundamental interactions of nature: electromagnetism and the weak interaction. Although these two forces appear very different at everyday low energies, the theory models them as two different aspects of the same force. Above the unification energy, on the order of 100 GeV, they would merge into a single electroweak force.

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QUANTUM FIELD THEORYA Crash Course by Hasan Mohammad

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Electroweak Interaction

1979 Nobel Prize Physics

What we’ll look at:-Review on Spinors-Massless Dirac Lagrangian-Leptonic Fields/Charges-Gauge Fields/unitary transformations-Weinberg Angle-Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

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Right and Left-Handed Spinors

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Right and Left-Handed Spinors

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Right and Left-Handed Spinors

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Massless Dirac Lagrangian

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Massless Dirac Lagrangian

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Massless Dirac Lagrangian

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Leptonic Fields

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Leptonic Fields

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Leptonic Fields

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Leptonic Fields

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Electroweak Charges

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Unitary Transformations

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Unitary Transformations

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Unitary Transformations

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Unitary Transformations

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Unitary Transformations

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Unitary Transformations

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Unitary Transformations

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Unitary Transformations

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Higgs Symmetry Breaking

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Higgs Symmetry Breaking

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Higgs Symmetry Breaking

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Higgs Symmetry Breaking

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Higgs Symmetry Breaking

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Higgs Symmetry Breaking

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Gauge Masses

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Gauge Masses

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Gauge Masses

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Gauge Masses

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Gauge Masses

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Gauge Masses

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Weinberg Angle

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Breaking the Symmetry

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Looking for a Mass

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Photon is massless!

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Z-Particle Mass

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Theoretical bounds…

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