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Week   Date Lectures Homework Readings
1  
Monday
1/20/2020
 Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
Wednesday
1/22/2020
 Intro to group theory;
reps of Lorentz group		 HW #1 (solutions) Schwartz 2.1, 10.1
Peskin 2.1, 2.4
2  
Monday
1/27/2020
 Reps of Poincaré group HW #2 (solutions) Larkoski 3.4
Wednesday
1/29/2020
 Classification of particles
by mass and spin;
unitary reps and Lagrangians		 HW #1 due in class

Larkoski 3.3.2

Coleman 3.2
3  
Monday
2/3/2020
 Scalar Lagrangians with U(1)
and SU(2) symmetries		 HW #3 (solutions)

Schwartz 8.1, Larkoski 2.2

Coleman 6.1
Wednesday
2/5/2020
 Spin-1 Lagrangians and 
gauge invariance		 HW #2 due in class

Schwartz 8.2-8.3
Coleman 27.1-27.2
4  
Monday
2/10/2020
 Spin-1/2 Lagrangians  

Schwartz 25.1, Ch. 10

Coleman Ch. 19
Wednesday
2/12/2020
 Writing down the Standard Model   Schwartz 29.3
5  
Monday
2/17/2020
 NO CLASS Read about
particle detectors

Peskin Ch. 6

Larkoski Ch. 5
Wednesday
2/19/2020
6  
Monday
2/24/2020
 QED Lagrangian and classical spinor solutions

HW #3 due in class
HW #4 (solutions)

 Schwartz 11.1-11.2, 13.1
Wednesday
2/26/2020
 Feynman rules for quantum electrodynamics,
e+ e- → μ+ μ- cross section		  

Schwartz Ch. 5, 8.4, 13.2-13.6

Peskin 7.1-7.3, Ch. 8
7  
Monday
3/2/2020
 Electron anomalous
magnetic moment		 HW #5 (solutions)

Electron g-factor measurement

Schwartz Ch. 17
Wednesday
3/4/2020
 e+ e- → μ+ μ- γ; soft and
collinear singularities		 HW #4 due in class

Schwartz Ch. 20.1.2, 20.2, 20.3.2

Peskin 10.2
8  
Monday
3/9/2020
 QED with quarks:
deep inelastic scattering		 HW #6 (solutions)

Bjorken scaling observed at HERA

Schwartz 32.1

Peskin Ch. 9
Wednesday
3/11/2020
 QED with quarks:
e+ e- → anything, resonances		 HW #5 due in class
(deadline extended till
Friday 3/13 10am)

Cross section and R ratio
in e+e- collisions

Jet angular distribution at ALEPH

Schwartz 26.3.1

Larkoski 6.2; Peskin 5.2, 7.4
9  
Monday
3/16/2020
 SPRING BREAK: NO CLASS
Wednesday
3/18/2020
10  
Monday
3/23/2020
 Quantum chromodynamics:
gluons and asymptotic freedom		  

Running of the strong coupling

Schwartz 25.1, 26.1, 26.3

Larkoski 7.3, Ch. 8; Peskin Ch. 10-11
Wednesday
3/25/2020
 Jets in QCD  

LEP thrust distribution

Schwartz 32.3

Larkoski Ch. 9
11  
Monday
3/30/2020
 Discovery of the top quark HW #7 (solutions)
Software readme

Discovery of the top at CDF
Long analysis paper

Peskin Ch. 13
Wednesday
4/1/2020
 The strong interaction at low energies:
the chiral Lagrangian, pions,
and Goldstone's theorem		 HW #6 due in class Schwartz Ch. 28.1-28.2
12  
Monday
4/6/2020
 Spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking:
Abelian toy example		 HW #8 (solutions)

Schwartz 28.3

Peskin 16.1
Wednesday
4/8/2020
 The Higgs mechanism
in the Standard Model		 HW #7 due in class

Schwartz 29.1-29.2

Peskin 16.2-16.3
13  
Monday
4/13/2020
 Three generations: the
CKM and PMNS matrices and Feynman rules
for electroweak interactions		 HW #9 (solutions)

Schwartz 29.3

Larkoski 12.1-12.2
Wednesday
4/15/2020
 Basic electroweak processes;
neutrino oscillations		 HW #8 due in class Neutrino oscillations at KamLAND
Larkoski 12.3
14  
Monday
4/20/2020
 Discovery of the W, Z, and Higgs  

Z boson lineshape
Higgs golden channel

Larkoski Ch. 13

Peskin Ch. 17, Ch. 21
Wednesday
4/22/2020
 P and CP violation   Neutrino DIS distributions at CDHS
Schwartz 11.4-11.5, 29.5
Peskin 15.4, Ch. 19
15  
Monday
4/27/2020
 NO CLASS  

Schwartz 29.4

Peskin Ch. 15, Larkoski Ch. 10
Wednesday
4/29/2020
 The weak interaction at low energies:
4-fermi theory and weak decays		 HW #9 due in class  
16  
Monday
5/4/2020
 Introduction to effective field theories Take-home final  
Wednesday
5/6/2020
 NO CLASS    
17  

Wednesday
5/13/2020

 NO CLASS: FINALS WEEK Take-home final due 5pm
5/13 to my.physics upload