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Week Date Lectures Homework Readings
1
Monday
8/26/2024

Intro to Particle Physics
Lecture 1: Relativity

 

Peskin Ch. 1, 2.1
Schwartz 2.1

Wednesday
8/28/2024

Lecture 2: Lorentz Group


 

Larkoski 3.1-3.2
Schwartz 10.1

2
Monday
9/02/2024

NO CLASS - Labor Day

 

 

Wednesday
9/04/2023

Lecture 3: Poincare
Representations and Casimirs

HW 1 
Solutions
due 9/13/2024

Larkoski 3.3.2, Peskin 3.2
Schwartz 10.2.1
(Optional: Coleman Ch. 1)

3
Monday
9/09/2024

Lecture 4:
Introduction to Lagrangians

 

Schwartz 3.1-3.2
Larkoski 2.2.1
(Optional: Coleman 3.2, 6.1)

Wednesday
9/11/2024

Lecture 5: Massless Spin -1
Gauge Theory

 

Schwartz 8.1, 8.2.2-8.2.3, 8.3, 25.0
Larkoski 2.2.3, Peskin 3.3
(Optional: Coleman 26.1-26.2)

4
Monday
9/16/2024

Lecture 6: Scalar QED
Non-Abelian Gauge Theory

 

 

Wednesday
9/18/2023

Lecture 7: Fermions
The Standard Model Lagranian

HW 2
Solutions
due 10/4/2024

Schwartz 3.3, 10.2-10.4
Peskin 3.4

5
Monday
9/23/2024

Lecture 8:
Weyl and Dirac Spinors

 

Schwartz 11.2, 8.4.2

Wednesday
9/25/2024

Lecture 9: (scalar) QED
Feynman rules and scattering amplitudes

  Schwartz 13.1-13.3
6
Monday
9/30/2024
Lecture 10: 2 -> 2 Scattering Processes
Crossing Symmetry

HW3
Solutions
due 10/14/2024

Schwartz 5.3
Peskin 8.3

Wednesday
10/02/2024
Lecture 11
From Scattering Amplitudes to 
Cross Sections

 

Schwartz 5.1-5.2
Peskin & Schroeder 4.5
Peskin Ch 7
7
Monday
10/07/2024
Lecture 12: Helicity Structure
 
Schwartz 5.3
Peskin & Schroeder 5.2-5.3
Peskin 8.2-8.4
Wednesday
10/09/2024
Lecture 13: Helicity Amplitudes
External Photons
 

Schwartz 8.4.2, 13.5.1
 

8
Monday
10/14/2024
No Lecture

 

 
Wednesday
10/16/2024
Lecture 14: Compton Scattering

 

Schwartz 13.5
Peskin & Schroeder 5.5

9
Monday
10/21/2024

Lecture 15
Lepton Anomalous Magnetic Moment

HW4
Solutions
due 11/04/2024

Schwartz Ch 17
Peskin & Schroeder: 6.2-6.3

Wednesday
10/23/2024
Lecture 16:
Radiative Corrections: Photon Emission;
Soft and
Collinear Singularities

 

Schwartz Ch. 20.1.2, 20.2, 20.3.2
Peskin 10.2

10 Monday
10/28/2024
Lecture 17: Intro to QCD:
QCD Feynman Rules, R-ratio
 

Schwartz 26.1-26.3
Peskin & Schroeder 17.1-17.2

Wednesday
10/30/2024
Lecture 18:
QED: Experiment vs Theory

 

 

 

11
Monday
11/04/2024
Lecture 19:
QCD Phenomenology

 

Peskin & Schroeder 17.3-17.6
Peskin Ch 5

Wednesday
11/06/2024
Lecture 20:
Top Quark Production

 

Peskin 13.2, 13.5
Madgraph Tutorial:

https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_6rg48726
12
Monday
11/11/2024 
Lecture 21:

 

 

Wednesday
11/13/2024
Lecture 22:
Intro to Spontaneous
Symmetry Breaking (SSB)

 
"When a Symmetry Breaks"
-Hitoshi Murayama Colloquium Slides
13
Monday
11/18/2024
Lecture 23:
Abelian Higgs Mechanism
 

Schwartz 28.3.1-28.3.2
Peskin & Schroeder 20.1

Wednesday
11/20/2024
Lecture 24:
Higgs Mechanism in the 
Standard Model
 

Schwartz 29.1-29.2
Peskin & Schroeder 20.2
Peskin 16.2-16.3

14
Monday
11/25/2024
 

 

 

 

Wednesday
11/27/2024
15
Monday
12/02/2024
Lecture 26:

 

 

 
Wednesday
12/04/2024
Lecture 27:


 
 
16 Monday
12/09/2024
     
Wednesday
12/11/2024
 

 

 
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