N.S.B. Cosmic Center

Early Subnuclear Phenomenology: Nuclear isospin, nucleons and pions. The hadronic spectrum. The Neutrino and the Fermi coupling.

Systematics of Particles and Processes: Hadronic SU(3). Beyond SU(3). Selection rules and CPT. Leptons. Quarks. The universal (V-A) weak interaction. Intermediate vector bosons.

Electronuclear Gauge Theory: Introduction. Quantum chromodynamics. Electroweak currents and the KMC matrix. The electroweak lagrangian. Symmetry breaking and masses. Effective phenomenology.

Quark-Lepton Unification: Introduction. SU(5) grand unification. Grand symmetry breaking and baryon number violation. Low-energy phenomenology and proton decay.

Alternative Grand Unified Theories: Introduction. Generalized unitary scheme. Classical alternatives. Supersymmetric exceptional unification.