In most universities, students are exposed to an introductory course on nuclear and particle physics at the undergraduate level during the second or third year. It comes as no surprise that this course represents a challenge for most teachers. Modern particle physics is a discipline grounded on quantum field theory (QFT): a tool that is not available to students at the sophomore or junior level. Even when we explain the Standard Model of particle physics focusing on the “discoveries of new particles,” we struggle against the complexity of the experimental techniques devised in the last few decades. As a consequence, we often resort to teaching the fundamentals of particle and nuclear physics building on the historical development of the field: from non-relativistic nuclear systems and the discovery of the first elementary particles up to the Standard Model.
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