Elementary particle physics is the quadrant of nature whose laws can be written in a few lines with absolute precision and the greatest empirical adequacy. Thus these lectures aim at introducing students and interested readers to the entire subject in a compact way.

A concise but self-contained and up-to-date description of the current theory of the ElectroWeak interactions at one year from the entering in operation of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva Focus on open questions that the LHC experiments might allow to answer

Inhalt

1. The Fermi theory of neutron decay.- 2. The Lagrangian of the Standard Model, including neutrino masses.- 3. The main predictions of the Standard Model.- 4. Precision tests.- 5. Flavour Physics.- 6. CP violation.- 7. Basics of neutrino physics.- 8. Neutrino oscillations.- 9. The naturalness problem of the Fermi scale.- 10. The main drawback of the Standard Model.- 11. Appendices.