PHYS 470 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Course Description

Standard model, Feyman diagrams, particle interactions, symmetries and groups, Quantum Electrodynamics, Quantum Chormodynamics, weak interactions, particle colliders, nuclear astrophysics (white dwarfs and neutron stars). Course Information: 4 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: PHYS 485 or PHYS 486.

Syllabus

Introduction
Special Relativity
Decay rates and cross sections
Dirac Equation
Symmetries (Spin, Isospin, C,P,T,...)
QED
QCD
Heavy-Ion Collisions
White Dwarfs/Neutron stars

Textboook

D. Griffiths, Introduction to Elementary Particles

Supplemental Texts

Stuart L. Shapiro and Saul A. Teukolsky, Black Holes, White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars: The Physics of Compact Objects (recommended)