PHYS 575 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
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Note: the Schedule is still under construction and will be updated throughout the semester.
| Week | Date | Lectures | Homework | Readings |
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| 1 |
Monday
8/25/2025 |
Intro to Particle Physics |
Peskin Ch. 1, 2.1 |
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Wednesday
8/27/2025 |
Lecture 2: Lorentz Group |
Larkoski 3.1-3.2 |
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| 2 |
Monday
9/01/2025 |
NO CLASS - Labor Day |
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Wednesday
9/03/2025 |
Lecture 3: Poincare |
Larkoski 3.3.2, Peskin 3.2 |
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| 3 |
Monday
9/09/2024 |
Lecture 4: |
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Schwartz 3.1-3.2 |
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Wednesday
9/11/2024 |
Lecture 5: Massless Spin -1 |
Schwartz 8.1, 8.2.2-8.2.3, 8.3, 25.0 |
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| 4 |
Monday
9/16/2024 |
Lecture 6: Scalar QED |
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| Wednesday 9/18/2023 |
Lecture 7: Fermions |
Schwartz 3.3, 10.2-10.4 |
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| 5 |
Monday
9/23/2024 |
Lecture 8: |
Schwartz 11.2, 8.4.2 |
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Wednesday
9/25/2024 |
Lecture 9: (scalar) QED |
Schwartz 13.1-13.3 | ||
| 6 |
Monday
9/30/2024 |
Lecture 10: 2 -> 2 Scattering Processes Crossing Symmetry |
Schwartz 5.3 |
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Wednesday
10/02/2024 |
Lecture 11: From Scattering Amplitudes to Cross Sections |
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Schwartz 5.1-5.2 Peskin & Schroeder 4.5 Peskin Ch 7 |
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| 7 |
Monday
10/07/2024 |
Lecture 12: Helicity Structure | Schwartz 5.3 Peskin & Schroeder 5.2-5.3 Peskin 8.2-8.4 |
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Wednesday
10/09/2024 |
Lecture 13: Helicity Amplitudes External Photons |
Schwartz 8.4.2, 13.5.1 |
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| 8 |
Monday
10/14/2024 |
No Lecture |
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Wednesday
10/16/2024 |
Lecture 14: Compton Scattering |
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Schwartz 13.5 |
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| 9 |
Monday
10/21/2024 |
Lecture 15: |
HW4 Solutions due 11/04/2024 |
Schwartz Ch 17 |
| Wednesday 10/23/2024 |
Lecture 16: Radiative Corrections: Photon Emission; Soft and Collinear Singularities |
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Schwartz Ch. 20.1.2, 20.2, 20.3.2 |
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| 10 | Monday 10/28/2024 |
Lecture 17: Intro to QCD: QCD Feynman Rules, R-ratio |
Schwartz 26.1-26.3 |
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| Wednesday 10/30/2024 |
Lecture 18: QED: Experiment vs Theory |
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| 11 |
Monday
11/04/2024 |
Lecture 19: QCD Phenomenology |
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Peskin & Schroeder 17.3-17.6 |
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Wednesday
11/06/2024 |
Lecture 20: Top Quark Production |
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Peskin 13.2, 13.5 Madgraph Tutorial: https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_6rg48726 |
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| 12 |
Monday
11/11/2024 |
Lecture 21: |
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Wednesday
11/13/2024 |
Lecture 22: Intro to Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (SSB) |
"When a Symmetry Breaks" -Hitoshi Murayama Colloquium Slides |
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| 13 |
Monday
11/18/2024 |
Lecture 23: Abelian Higgs Mechanism |
Schwartz 28.3.1-28.3.2 |
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Wednesday
11/20/2024 |
Lecture 24: Higgs Mechanism in the Standard Model |
HW 5 Solutions Due 12/11/2024 |
Schwartz 29.1-29.2 |
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| 14 |
Monday
11/25/2024 |
FALL BREAK |
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Wednesday
11/27/2024 |
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| 15 |
Monday
12/02/2024 |
Lecture 25: Electroweak Interactions of Fermions |
HW 6 |
Schwartz 29.3 |
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Wednesday
12/04/2024 |
Lecture 26: CKM Mixing Angles | Schwartz 29.5 Peskin & Schroeder 20.3 |
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| 16 | Monday 12/09/2024 |
Lecture 27: The Dance of the Muon | Schwartz 24.1 Peskin & Schroeder 7.3 |
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| Wednesday 12/11/2024 |
Lecture 28: W,Z Boson Decay & |
Final Exam |
Peskin 7.2, Ch.17, Ch. 21 | |
| 17 |