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

Intro to Particle Physics
Lecture 1: Relativity

Peskin Ch. 1, 2.1
Schwartz 2.1

Lecture 2: Lorentz Group

Larkoski 3.1-3.2
Schwartz 10.1

NO CLASS - Labor Day

Lecture 3: Poincare
Representations and Casimirs

HW 1 
Solutions
 

Larkoski 3.3.2, Peskin 3.2
Schwartz 10.2.1
(Optional: Coleman Ch. 1)

Lecture 4:
Introduction to Lagrangians

Schwartz 3.1-3.2
Larkoski 2.2.1
(Optional: Coleman 3.2, 6.1)

Lecture 5: Massless Spin -1
Gauge Theory

Schwartz 8.1, 8.2.2-8.2.3, 8.3, 25.0
Larkoski 2.2.3, Peskin 3.3
(Optional: Coleman 26.1-26.2)

Lecture 6: Scalar QED
Non-Abelian Gauge Theory

Lecture 7: Fermions
The Standard Model Lagranian

HW 2
Solutions
 

Schwartz 3.3, 10.2-10.4
Peskin 3.4

Lecture 8:
Weyl and Dirac Spinors

Schwartz 11.2, 8.4.2

Lecture 9: (scalar) QED
Feynman rules and scattering amplitudes

Lecture 10: 

From scattering amplitudes to

cross sections

HW3
Solutions
 

Schwartz 5.1-5.2
Peskin & Schroeder 4.5
Peskin Ch 7

Crossing Symmetry, Helicity Structure

Schwartz 5.3
Peskin 8.2-8.4

Peskin & Schroeder 5.1-5.4

Schwartz 8.4.2, 13.5.1
 

Schwartz Ch 17
Peskin & Schroeder: 6.2-6.3

Lecture 16:
Radiative Corrections: Photon Emission;
Soft and
Collinear Singularities

Schwartz Ch. 20.1.2, 20.2, 20.3.2
Peskin 10.2

Schwartz 26.1-26.3
Peskin & Schroeder 17.1-17.2

Peskin & Schroeder 17.3-17.6
Peskin Ch 5

Peskin 13.2, 13.5
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Schwartz 29.1-29.2
Peskin & Schroeder 20.2
Peskin 16.2-16.3

Schwartz 29.3

HW 6
Solutions


Example Notebook

Schwartz 29.5
Peskin & Schroeder 20.3

Final Exam