These are a series of blog posts by Flip Tanedo that present a very enjoyable armchair crash course into particle physics. The original site has somewhat bitrotted so I thought I'd compile a set of working links here to make it easy to browse them.
- Let's draw Feynman diagrams
- More Feynman Diagrams
- QED + μ: introducing the muon
- The Z boson and resonances
- Neutrinos
- The W boson: mixing things up
- Meet the quarks
- World of glue
- QCD and Confinement
- “Known knowns” of the Standard Model
- When Feynman Diagrams Fail
- An Idiosyncratic Introduction to the Higgs
- A diagrammatic hint of masses from the Higgs
- Higgs and the vacuum: Viva la “vev”
- Helicity, Chirality, Mass, and the Higgs
- The Birds and the Bs
- The spin of gauge bosons: vector particles
- Who ate the Higgs?
- Why do we expect a Higgs boson? Part II: Unitarization of Vector Boson Scattering
- Particle Paparazzi: the private lives of the Standard Model particles (summary)