Welcome to to PH4442 -- Advanced Particle Physics. The course is taught by Glen Cowan.

Time and place: Place: The 2026/27 course takes place Fridays 2-5 pm starting 2 October ending 11 December (11 weeks with no reading week). Lectures are in London in Stewart House, Room 4. The entrance to Stewart House is through Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU -- here is a map. Once in Senate House go up the big staircase, turn left and through the corridor past the Royal Holloway sign.

What the course is about: The goal of the course is to develop concepts of particle physics including relativistic quantum mechanics, Feynman diagrams, cross sections and decay rates, weak interactions and neutrino physics, the Standard Model, QCD, LHC physics.

More information on the course can be found in the slides from week 1 below.

Moodle page: U. of London MSc and MSci students should access the course through its RHUL moodle page.

The lecture notes are the main resource for the course.

Slides and further notes:

Problem sheets: There are 5 problem sheets due on Fridays at 14:00 from weeks 3 through 11.

Books and other resources:

• Preliminary reading: the course follows on from RHUL's year-3 course in particle physics PH3520. Here are the lecture notes from PH3520. Please have a look at these for the first week, especially chapter 1.
• Key text: Ian J.R. Aitchison, Anthony J.G. Hey, Gauge Theories in Particle Physics: A Practical Introduction, 4th edition (open access).
• A sheet of useful formulas from Halzen and Martin.