Lectures related to Understanding Vacuum Energy in Inflation

Symmetries and Quark Model

Explores symmetries in particle physics, focusing on the quark model and conservation laws, leading to isospin and flavor symmetry.

Higgs boson; Dark matter

Explores the properties of the Higgs boson and the concept of dark matter, including detection strategies and challenges.

Quarks and Mesons: Isospin and Flavor Symmetry

Covers antiquarks, mesons, isospin, ladder operators, and flavor symmetry in quarks and mesons.

Magnetogenesis: Axion Inflation and Gravitational Waves

Covers magnetogenesis in axion inflation and its implications for gravitational waves.

Fermion Masses: Higgs Mechanism and Yukawa Couplings

Covers the Higgs mechanism, fermion masses, Yukawa couplings, and properties of the Higgs boson, concluding with a discussion on dark matter beyond the Standard Model.