Introduction to Standard Model: presentation(s) requested...

[suyver]

Hi all,

I have been asked to give an informal presentation on the Standard Model to some chemists (note that this is not really my field of expertise [:D] ). I was wondering if there are some good (powerpoint) presentations out there that I could use to base mine on. That would save me a lot of time... Any help will be appreciated greatly.

Sort of stuff that I want to talk about:
- Very brief history
- quarks & leptons: charge, mass, spin, ...
- force carriers: charge, mass, spin, ...
- color charge
- Feynman diagrams
- Higgs mechanism (celebrity at a party-model)
- Free quarks / gluons are prohibited.
- nice experimental verifications: (g-2)/2, linewidth of the Z0, ... (?)
- Very brief outlook to the future (Higgs boson, supersym., 11-D and so on)

I hope that you have some suggestions of places for me to steal some nice figures from... [;)]

[chroot]

We don't condone plagiarism here. If you're going to "steal" things, be intellectually honest and provide the proper credits for that material.

A good place to start would be www.particleadventure.org.

- Warren

[suyver]

Originally posted by chroot
We don't condone plagiarism here. If you're going to "steal" things, be intellectually honest and provide the proper credits for that material.

To me that goes without saying. Naturally I would list proper credits!

I thought that if I were to use a few figures from someone's presentation that he/she posted on his/her website and list credits accordingly in my talk that this would be ok. Would you consider this plagiarism? If so, then I will certainly make all my own graphs. However, I see many figures (also at conferences) that appear to be recycled / copied from somewhere else, sometimes with and sometimes without references. Therefore, I didn't think there was something wrong with this.

Anyway, thanks for the link! Looks like a very well set up site with lots of cool graphs and information.

Cheers!