Topics:

• Introduction: particle zoo, interactions and exchange particles, relativistic kinematics, Feynman diagrams

• Covariant description of relativistic particles: Klein-Gordon equation, crossing symmetry, invariant amplitude and cross section, Fermi's Golden Rule

• Quantum electrodynamics of spin-less particles: covariant electrodynamics, photon propagator, Feynman rules, scattering cross section

• Quantum electrodynamics of spin-1/2 particles: Dirac equation, electron-muon scattering cross section, helicity conservation, electron-positron scattering

• Weak Interactions: charged-current interactions, V-A structure, parity violation, quark couplings and CP violation

• Physics of massive neutrinos: neutrino oscillations, mass hierarchy, double beta decay

• Towards the Standard Model of Particle Physics: neutral current interactions, weak isospin and hypercharge, electroweak unification

• The Higgs mechanism: gauge invariance, spontaneous symmetry breaking, Higgs couplings, Higgs production and decay

• Beyond the Standard Model: introduction to supersymmetry, Dark Matter