Here is a tentative course syllabus (under construction):
| Week |
Date | Topic | Reading | Checkpoints |
Homework |
| 1 |
21 Jan |
Introduction Units and scales Fundamental matter particles |
L Ch. I T Ch. 1 G. Ch. 1 |
no CP |
no HW |
| 2 |
26 Jan 28 Jan |
Feynman diagrams and interactions (QED, QCD, weak) Conservation Laws Relativistic kinematics |
L Ch. I, II T Ch. 1, 2 G Ch. 1 |
CP 1 Solutions |
HW 1 Solutions |
| 3 |
02 Feb
04 Feb
|
Relativistic Collisions Symmetries and Group Theory |
L Ch. III T Ch. 9 G Ch. |
CP 2 Solutions |
HW 2 Solutions |
| 4 |
09 Feb
11 Feb |
Spin and rotations Isospin |
L Ch. III.3-5,
III.6 T Ch. 2, 9 G Ch. 4 |
CP 3 Solutions |
HW 3 Solutions |
| 5 |
16 Feb
18 Feb
|
Isospin Discrete symmetries (P) |
L Ch. III.5,
III.6 T Ch. 9 G Ch. 4 |
CP 4 Solutions |
HW 4 Solutions |
| 6 |
23 Feb
25 Feb
|
Discrete symmetries (C, G, CP, CPT) Hadrons made of u,d,s quarks |
L III.6, IV.1-2 T Ch. 9.3-6 G Ch. 4.4, 5.5-6 |
CP 5 Solutions |
HW 5 Solutions |
| 7 |
02 Mar
04 Mar
|
Hadron spectrum: SU(2)
Isospin Hadron spectrum: SU(3) flavor |
L IV T Ch. 9.5-6 G Ch. 5.5-6 |
CP 6 Solutions |
HW 6 Solutions |
| 8 |
09 Mar 11 Mar |
Baryons in the quark model The Golden Rule, decay rates and cross sections, etc... |
T Ch. 9.5-6, 3 G Ch. 5.5-6, 6 |
CP 7 Solutions |
no
HW |
| 9 |
16 Mar
18 Mar
|
Lorentz invariant phase
space Midterm exam |
T Ch. 3 G Ch. 6 |
no CP |
HW 8 Solutions |
| 10 |
23 Mar
25 Mar
|
Spring break | |||
| 11 |
30 Mar
01 Apr
|
The Dirac Equation |
T Ch. 4 G Ch. 7.1-3 |
CP 9 Solutions |
HW 9 Solutions |
| 12 |
06 Apr
08 Apr
|
Feynman
rules for QED QED scattering processes |
T Ch. 5 G Ch. 7.4 |
CP 10 Solutions |
HW 10 Solutions |
| 13 |
13 Apr
15 Apr
|
QED cross sections,
helicity amplitudes, trace theorems e+e- -> mu+ mu- |
T Ch. 6 G Ch. 7.4-6 |
CP 11 Solutions |
HW 11 Solutions |
| 14 |
20 Apr 22 Apr |
e+e-
-> hadrons
e- p scattering Form factors |
T Ch. 6.5, 7.1-3 G Ch. 8.1-2 |
CP 12 Solutions |
HW 12 Solutions |
| 15 |
27 Apr
29 Apr
|
QCD |
T Ch. 8, 10.1-2 G Ch. 8 |
CP 13 Solutions |
HW 13 Solutions |
| 16 |
04 May
05 May
|
Weak Interactions Higgs boson |
|
no CP |
no HW |
| 17 |
Final exam: 12 May 2015, 8:00am -
11:00am, 136 Loomis |
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