The Standard Model in 2001

Abstract

The Standard Model of electroweak and strong interactions is reviewed in a pedagogical set of lectures. After an introduction to the quarks, leptons, and gauge bosons, an elementary discussion of gauge theories is given, with application to quantum chromodynamics. The physics of $W$ bosons, electroweak unification, and $Z$ bosons is then described, ending with a discussion of precision electroweak experiments and the light they can shed on the Higgs boson and other physics.

56 pages, LaTeX, 13 figures, based on five lectures at the 55th Scottish Universities' Summer School in Physics, St. Andrews, Scotland, August 7-23, 2001. Dedicated to the memory of Sam B. Treiman. Version submitted for publication by Institute of Physics (UK). Requires file sussp.sty (attached). Typos corrected and some updates. Revised version with margins modified