PHYS 575 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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| Week | Date | Lectures | Homework | Readings |
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| 1 |
Monday
8/21/2023 |
Particle zoo; natural units, review of relativity |
Peskin Ch. 1, 2.1 |
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Wednesday
8/23/2023 |
Intro to group theory and Lorentz representations |
Larkoski 3.1-3.2 |
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| 2 |
Monday
8/28/2023 |
Poincaré representations |
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Wednesday
8/30/2023 |
Unitary representations and Lagrangians |
HW #1 due in class |
Larkoski 3.3.2, Peskin 3.2 Schwartz 10.2.1 (Optional: Coleman Ch. 1) |
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| 3 |
Monday
9/4/2023 |
NO CLASS - Labor Day |
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Wednesday
9/6/2023 |
Spin-0 Lagrangians, internal symmetries |
Schwartz 3.1-3.2 Larkoski 2.2.1 (Optional: Coleman 3.2, 6.1) |
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| 4 |
Monday
9/11/2023 |
HW #2 due in class |
Schwartz 8.1, 8.2.2-8.2.3, 8.3, 25.0 (Optional: Coleman 26.1-26.2) (Optional: notes on principal bundles |
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| Wednesday 9/13/2023 |
Spin-1/2 Lagrangians; Noether's Theorem |
Schwartz 3.3, 10.2-10.4 Peskin 3.4 |
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| 5 |
Monday
9/18/2023 |
Schwartz 29.3, 25.3 |
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Wednesday
9/20/2023 |
Particle detectors, cross sections and luminosity, phase space (this lecture via Zoom) |
Peskin Ch. 6, 7.1-7.3 Larkoski Ch. 5 ATLAS detector schematic |
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| 6 |
Monday
9/25/2023 |
NO CLASS - Yom Kippur | ||
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Wednesday
9/27/2023 |
QED Lagrangian, spinor and vector wavefunctions |
HW #3 due in class |
Schwartz 11.2, 8.4.2 | |
| 7 |
Monday
10/2/2023 |
Feynman rules for QED; e+ e- → μ+ μ- cross section |
Schwartz 13.1-13.3 | |
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Wednesday
10/4/2023 |
e+ e- → μ+ μ- cross section: kinematic thresholds and helicity amplitudes |
Peskin 8.3 Schwartz 5.3 |
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| 8 |
Monday
10/9/2023 |
Lepton anomalous magnetic moments |
HW #4 due in class |
Electron g-factor measurement Schwartz Ch. 17 |
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Wednesday
10/11/2023 |
e+ e- → μ+ μ- γ; soft and collinear singularities |
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Schwartz Ch. 20.1.2, 20.2, 20.3.2 Peskin 10.2 |
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| 9 |
Monday
10/16/2023 |
Quarks and QCD: R-ratio, QCD Feynman rules, asymptotic freedom |
Cross section and R ratio Schwartz 26.3.1 Peskin 11.1-11.3, Larkoski 8.3.4 |
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| Wednesday 10/18/2023 |
Parton distribution functions, discovery of the top quark |
HW #5 due in class HW #6 |
Peskin 13.2, 13.5 Larkoski pp. 178, 184-187 |
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| 10 | Monday 10/23/2023 |
The strong interaction at low energies: the chiral Lagrangian |
Schwartz Ch. 28.1-28.2 Peskin 14.1-14.3 |
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| Wednesday 10/25/2023 |
Intro to spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking |
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Schwartz 28.3.1-28.3.2 |
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| 11 |
Monday
10/30/2023 |
The Higgs mechanism in the Standard Model |
HW #6 due in class |
Schwartz 29.1-29.2 Peskin 16.2-16.3 |
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Wednesday
11/1/2023 |
Three generations: the CKM and PMNS matrices, Feynman rules for electroweak interactions |
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Schwartz 29.3 Larkoski 12.1-12.2 |
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| 12 |
Monday
11/6/2023 |
Basic electroweak processes; Neutrino oscillations |
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Neutrino oscillations at KamLAND |
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Wednesday
11/8/2023 |
Discovery of the W, Z, and Higgs |
Z boson lineshape Higgs golden channel Larkoski Ch. 13 Peskin 7.2, Ch. 17, Ch. 21 |
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| 13 |
Monday
11/13/2023 |
HW #7 due in class |
Schwartz 11.4-11.5, 29.5 Peskin 15.4, Ch. 19 |
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Wednesday
11/15/2023 |
The weak interaction at low energies: 4-fermi theory |
Schwartz 29.4 Peskin Ch. 15, Larkoski Ch. 10 |
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| 14 |
Monday
11/20/2023 |
NO CLASS - FALL BREAK |
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Wednesday
11/22/2023 |
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| 15 |
Monday
11/27/2023 |
Beyond the Standard Model: introduction to EFTs and SMEFT |
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Schwartz Ch. 22 |
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Wednesday
11/29/2023 |
Beyond the Standard Model: dark matter |
Scalar singlet model |
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| 16 | Monday 12/4/2023 |
GR as an EFT | HW #8 due in class | Schwartz 8.6, 8.7, 22.4 |
| Wednesday 12/6/2023 |
Intro to QFT in curved spacetime | |||
| 17 | 12/12/2023- 12/16/2023 |
NO CLASS: FINALS WEEK | Take-home final due 5pm 12/14 to my.physics upload or Prof. Kahn's mailbox |
