Syllabus
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1. Low-energy weak Lagrangian and its symmetries

2. Muon decay: total width, polarised muon decay

3. Strangeness-conserving semileptonic processes

- hadronic isospin conservation and its consequences;

- conserved vector current and partially conserved axial current;

- pion decays;

- neutron beta decay;

- Fermi and Gamow-Teller nuclear transitions

4. Strangeness-changing leptonic decays of hadrons

- kaon decays;

- leptonic decays of hyperons;

5. Strangeness-changing non-leptonic interactions

- suppression of Delta I = 3/2 transitions

- non-leptonic decays of kaons

- neutral kaon oscillations

- neutral kaon mass difference and the GIM mechanism

6. Heavy leptons and quarks

- tau decays: leptonic and semi-hadronic; decay into pions and kaons;

- decays of charmed particles:  semi-leptonic, non-leptonic, leptonic decays

- the CKM matrix



Bibliography
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Lecture notes: Sections 1, 2 (not the appendices), 3 (not the
appendices), 4, 5, 6 (up to 6.1.1), 7

These are mostly based on 

- L.B. Okun, Leptons and quarks (North Holland, 1984)

and (especially for neutral kaon oscillations and the GIM mechanism)

- O. Nachtmann: Elementary particle physics (Springer, 1989)

- T.P. Cheng and L.F. Li: Gauge theory of elementary particle physics
(Oxford Univ. Press, 1988)