PHYS 575 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Intro to Particle Physics
Lecture 1: Relativity

Schwartz 2.1
Peskin Ch. 1, 2.1
Larkoski 1.2, 2.1.2-2.1.3
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 1.1-1.2)

Lecture 2: Lorentz Group

Schwartz 10.1
Peskin & Schroeder 3.1
Larkoski 2.1.2, 3.1-3.2
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 18.1-18.3)

Schwartz 8.1
Peskin 2.4
Larkoski 3.3.2
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 5.6, 18.2-18.5)

Lecture 4: Homework 1 guide

HW 1 
Solutions
 

Schwartz 8.1
Peskin 2.4
Larkoski 3.3.2
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 5.6, 18.2-18.5)

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Lecture 5: Casimirs, helicity and Lagrangians

Schwartz 3.1-3.2, 8.1, 11.1
Peskin & Schroeder 2.2
Larkoski 2.2.1, 3.4, 6.1.2
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 5.3-5.6
Coleman AOS 3.2.1)

Lecture 6: Scalar field theory

Schwartz 2.3, 3.1-3.2
Peskin & Schroeder 2.1-2.4
Peskin 3.1-3.2
Larkoski 2.2.1
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 3.1-3.4
Coleman AOS 5.4.1-5.4.3)

Lecture 7: Gauge theory and spin-1 bosons

HW 2 
Solutions
 

Schwartz 8.2-8.4
Peskin & Schroeder 15.1-15.2
Peskin 3.3, 11.1
Larkoski 2.2.3, 3.4, 8.2
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 26.1-26.5, 27.1-27.2
Coleman AOS 5.2.4-5.2.5)

Lecture 8: The photon field

Schwartz 8.4-8.5
Larkoski 2.2.3, 3.4
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 26.4-26.5, 30.4
Coleman AOS 5.5.1-5.5.3)

Lecture 9: Scalar QED  
EW - Higgs sector of the Standard Model

Schwartz 9.1-9.4 (scalar QED)
Schwartz 28.3, 29.1 (EW-Higgs sector)
Peskin & Schroeder 20.1-20.2
Larkoski 11.2, 11.3.2
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 30.1, 46.1-46.3
Coleman AOS 5.2.4-5.2.5)

Lecture 10:Relativistic QFT of Fermions
QED, Standard Model, Noether's Theorem

Schwartz 3.3, 10.3-10.4, 13.1
Peskin & Schroeder 2.2, 3.2-3.5, 4.7-4.8
Peskin 3.4
Larkoski 1.2, 2.2.2
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 6.1, 19.2-19.4, 21.1-21.5
Coleman AOS 2.5, 5.4.5)

Lecture 11: Dirac and Weyl spinors

HW3
Solutions
 

Schwartz 10.2-10.6, 11.1
Peskin & Schroeder 3.1-3.4
Peskin 8.2
Larkoski 2.2.2, 6.1.1
(Optional: Peskin 8.3-8.4)
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 18.3, 19.1-19.4, 20.2)

Lecture 12: Feynman rules for (scalar) QED

Schwartz 9.2-9.3, 13.1
Peskin & Schroeder 4.6, 4.8
Larkoski 4.3
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 28.5, 30.1
Coleman AOS 5.4.3-5.4.4)

Lecture 13: QED Scattering amplitudes

Schwartz 13.1, 13.3-13.5
Peskin & Schroeder 5.1, 5.4-5.5
Larkoski 4.3.2, 6.1.1-6.1.3
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 21.5-21.6, 30.3
Coleman AOS 5.4.3)

Lecture 14: From Scattering amplitudes to cross sections 

Schwartz 5.1, 5.3
Peskin & Schroeder 4.5
Peskin 7.1-7.3, 8.4
Larkoski 4.2.1-4.2.2, 6.1.3
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 11.4, 12.1-12.3
Coleman AOS 2.1)

Lecture 15: Helicity structure

HW4
Solutions

Schwartz 5.3, 11.1
Peskin & Schroeder 5.2
Peskin 8.2-8.3
Larkoski 6.1.1-6.1.2, 7.4
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 20.2, 21.6
Coleman AOS 2.2)

Lecture 16: External Photons and Compton Scattering

Schwartz 8.4.2, 13.5
Peskin & Schroeder 5.5
Larkoski 2.2.3, 3.4
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 30.4, 35.3
Coleman AOS 5.5.1-5.5.3)

Lecture 17: Lepton anomalous magnetic moment

Schwartz Ch. 17 (17.1-17.2)
Peskin & Schroeder 6.2-6.3
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 34.2-34.3, 35.1-35.2)

Peskin & Schroeder 15.4, 16.1, 17.4
Peskin 11.2-11.4, 13.2, 13.5
Larkoski 6.2.2, 8.1-8.2
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 36.3-36.5, 37.4, 39.6
Coleman AOS 1.2.1-1.2.7, 8.3.1)

Lecture 19: Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (SSB)

                   Abelian Higgs Model

Schwartz 28.1-28.2, 28.3.1-28.3.2
Peskin & Schroeder 11.1, 20.1
Peskin 16.1
Larkoski 11.2.1-11.2.3
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 43.2-43.4, 46.1
Coleman AOS 5.2.1-5.2.4)

Lecture 20: Higgs Mechanism and the EW Sector

                   in the Standard Model

HW 5
Solutions

Schwartz 29.1-29.2
Peskin & Schroeder 20.2
Peskin 16.2-16.3
Larkoski 11.3.1-11.3.3
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 46.1-46.3, 48.1-48.2
Coleman AOS 5.2.4-5.2.5)

Schwartz 29.3-29.4
Peskin & Schroeder 20.2
Larkoski 11.3.3, 12.2.1-12.2.2
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 48.1-48.4
Coleman AOS 5.2.5)

Lecture 22: The Yukawa Sector of the Standard 

                   Model and the CKM Mixing Matrix

Schwartz 29.3
Peskin & Schroeder 20.3
Peskin 18.1-18.5
Larkoski 12.1-12.2.4
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 40.3, 49.1-49.2)

Lecture 23: Discrete Symmetries: Parity, Charge

                   Conjugation and CP

Schwartz 11.4-11.5, 29.5
Peskin & Schroeder 3.6, 20.3
Larkoski 10.2, 12.2.3
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 6.3, 22.1-22.5)

Lecture 24: The Weak Interactions at Low Energies;

                   Muon Decay

HW 6
Solutions

Example Notebook

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Schwartz 29.4
Peskin & Schroeder 20.2
Peskin 15.1-15.2
Larkoski 10.4.1
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 40.1-40.3, 48.2
Coleman AOS 2.2)

Peskin & Schroeder 19.3
Peskin 15.3
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 40.4, 41.1-41.4
Coleman AOS 2.2-2.3)

Schwartz 29.1, 29.3
Peskin & Schroeder 20.2
Peskin 17.1-17.3
Larkoski 11.3.1, 11.3.3-11.3.4
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 48.1-48.4
Coleman AOS 5.2.5)

Peskin Ch. 20
Larkoski 12.3.1-12.3.2
(Optional:
Schwartz 29.3)

Peskin 7.2, Ch. 17, Ch. 21
Larkoski Ch. 13

Lecture 29: The Dance of the Muon

Final Exam
 

Schwartz Ch. 17
Peskin & Schroeder 6.2-6.3
(Optional:
Coleman QFT 34.2-34.3, 35.2)