Course

Chiral fermion masses, Standard Model particle content, Higgs mechanism in the SM

Basic Phenomenology: Interference, Mach-Zehnder, Elitzur-Vaidman Bomb, EPR-Bohm, No-Cloning

Covariant derivative: connection, Cartan's structure equations

Spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism in abelian gauge theory

What is the question? Quantum theory as an operational theory.

Review of differential geometry: manifolds, tensors, differential forms, Lie derivative

Particle content of the Standard Model, Renormalizability of massive gauge theories

BCS theory and gap equation

Renormalization of non-abelian gauge theory

Cooper pair program, BCS microscopic approach

Gauge fixing continued, ghosts