PHYS 575 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
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| Week | Date | Lectures | Homework | Readings |
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| 1 |
Monday
8/24/2026 |
Intro to Particle Physics |
Peskin Ch. 1, 2.1 |
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Wednesday
8/26/2026 |
Lecture 2: Lorentz Group |
Larkoski 3.1-3.2 |
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| 2 |
Monday
8/31/2026 |
Lecture 3: Poincare Representations and Casimirs
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Larkoski 3.3.2, Peskin 3.2 |
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Wednesday
9/02/2026 |
Lecture 4: Homework 1 guide |
Schwartz 3.1-3.2 |
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| 3 |
Monday
9/07/2026 |
NO CLASS: Labor Day |
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Wednesday
9/09/2026 |
Lecture 5: Introduction to Lagrangians |
Schwartz 8.1, 8.2.2-8.2.3, 8.3, 25.0 |
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| 4 |
Monday
9/14/2026 |
Lecture 6: Scalar field theories |
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| Wednesday 9/16/2026 |
Lecture 7: Gauge fields and spin 1 |
Schwartz 3.3, 10.2-10.4 |
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| 5 |
Monday
9/21/2026 |
Lecture 8:Fermions |
Schwartz 11.2, 8.4.2 |
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Wednesday
9/23/2026 |
Lecture 9: (scalar) QED |
Schwartz 13.1-13.3 | ||
| 6 |
Monday
9/28/2026 |
Lecture 10: From scattering amplitudes to cross sections |
Schwartz 5.1-5.2 |
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Wednesday
9/30/2026 |
Lecture 11: Crossing Symmetry, Helicity Structure |
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Schwartz 5.3 Peskin & Schroeder 5.1-5.4 |
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| 7 |
Monday
10/05/2026 |
Lecture 12: External Photons, Compton Scattering |
Schwartz 8.4.2, 13.5 Peskin & Schroeder 5.5 |
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Wednesday
10/07/2026 |
Lecture 13: Lepton Anomalous Magnetic Moment |
Schwartz Ch 17 |
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| 8 |
Monday
10/12/2026 |
Lecture 14: Radiative Corrections: Photon Emission |
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Schwartz Ch. 20.1.2, 20.2, 20.3.2 Peskin 10.2 |
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Wednesday
10/14/2026 |
Lecture 15: Radiative Corrections: Soft and Collinier Singularities |
Schwartz Ch. 20.1.2, 20.2, 20.3.2 |
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| 9 |
Monday
10/19/2026 |
Lecture 16: e+e- --> hardrons and R-ratio |
Schwartz 26.3 Peskin & Schroeder 17.2 |
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| Wednesday 10/21/2026 |
Lecture 17: Intro to QCD, QCD Feynman Rules |
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Schwartz 26.1-26.2 Peskin & Schroeder 17.1-17.6 |
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| 10 | Monday 10/26/2026 |
Lecture 18: Color Factors, Top Quark Production |
Peskin 13.2, 13.5 |
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| Wednesday 10/28/2026 |
Lecture 19: Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (SSB) Abelian Higgs Model |
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Schwartz 28.3.1-28.3.2 Peskin & Schroeder 20.1 |
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| 11 |
Monday
11/02/2026 |
Lecture 20: Higgs Mechanism and the EW Sector in the Standard Model |
Schwartz 29.1-29.2 Peskin & Schroeder 20.2 |
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Wednesday
11/04/2026 |
Lecture 21: Electroweak Interactions for Fermions |
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Peskin & Schroeder 20.2 Schwartz 29.3-29.4 |
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| 12 |
Monday
11/9/2026 |
Lecture 22: The Yukawa Sector of the Standard Model and the CKM Mixing Matrix |
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Schwartz 29.3 Peskin & Schroeder 20.3 |
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Wednesday
11/11/2026 |
Lecture 23: Discrete Symmetries: Parity, Charge Conjugation and CP |
Schwartz 29.5 Peskin & Schroeder 20.3 |
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| 13 |
Monday
11/16/2026 |
Lecture 24: The Weak Interactions at Low Energies; Muon Decay |
Madgraph Tutorial https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_6rg48726 Schwartz 29.4 |
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Wednesday
11/18/2026 |
Lecture 25: Pion Decay and Helicity Suppression |
Peskin & Schroeder 19.3 Schwartz 30.1 |
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| 14 |
Monday
11/23/2026 |
FALL BREAK |
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Wednesday
11/25/2026 |
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| 15 |
Monday
11/30/2026 |
Lecture 26: W,Z Boson Decay and Production |
Schwartz 29.1 |
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Wednesday
12/02/2026 |
Lecture 27: Neutrino Oscillations | Schwartz 29.3 | ||
| 16 | Monday 12/7/2025 |
Lecture 28: | Peskin 7.2, Ch.17, Ch. 21 | |
| Wednesday 12/9/2026 |
Lecture 29: The Dance of the Muon |
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