The course introduces our current understanding of fundamental physics as encoded in the standard model, and the basic theoretocal and experimental techniques used in current particle-physics research. 

• Prerequisites – special relativity, symmetries
• Introduction to basic concepts and the standard model
• Properties of decays and cross sections
• Interactions of particles with matter
• Particle accelerators and detectors
• Quantum relativistic equations (Dirac, Klein-Gordon) 
• Lagrangians, gauge interactions and the Higgs mechanism.
• Physics beyond the standard model
• Nuclear radioactivity
• Nuclear models and structure