Physics 470 Syllabus, Texts, and Lecture Notes (Spring 2015)

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Syllabus

• Historical Introduction

• Special Relativity

• Symmetries (Spin, Isospin, C,P,T,…)

• Dirac Equation
• QED
• QCD
• ElectroWeak Interactions
• Neutrino Oscillations
• Higgs physics
  

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Textboook

M. Thomson, Modern Particle Physics

Supplemental Texts

D. Griffiths, Introduction to Elementary Particles (2^nd revised edition) recommended
D.H. Perkins, Introduction to High Energy Physics (3^rd edition)
Henley and Garcia, Subatomic Physics
B. Povh et al, Particles and Nuclei (6^th edition)

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Lecture Notes

• Chapter I: Introduction, Introduction
• Chapter II: Relativistic Kinematics
• Chapter III: Symmetries and Group Theory
• Chapter IV: Hadrons in the Quark Model
  
  

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