This volume presents introductory lectures on the Standard Model and Higgs physics, as well as QCD. These lectures provided the particle physics background for the main topics of the school: astroparticle physics and modern cosmology.
Introduction to electroweak symmetry breaking, S. Dawson; introduction to QCD, M.L. Mangano; neutrino astrophysics at the cross roads, G.G. Raffelt; finite temperature field theory and phase transitions, M. Quiros; an introduction to cosmological inflation, A.R. Liddle; the large-scale structure of the universe, J. Silk; theories of baryogenesis, A. Riotto.
