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Week Date Lectures Homework Readings
1
Monday
1/17/2022
 No class - MLK day    
Wednesday
1/19/2022
 Particle zoo; natural units,
review of relativity		 HW #1
Solutions

Peskin Ch. 1, 2.1

Schwartz 2.1
2
Monday
1/24/2022

Intro to group theory and
Lorentz representations

  

Larkoski 3.1-3.2

Schwartz 10.1
Wednesday
1/26/2022
 Poincaré representations    
3
Monday
1/31/2022
 Classification of particles
by mass and spin,
unitary representations

HW #1 due in class

HW #2 (solutions)

Larkoski 3.3.2, Peskin 3.2

Schwartz 10.2.1

(Optional: Coleman Ch. 1)
Wednesday
2/2/2022
 Spin-0 Lagrangians  

Schwartz 3.1-3.2

Larkoski 2.2.1

(Optional: Coleman 3.2, 6.1)
4
Monday
2/7/2022

Spin-0 Lagrangians and
internal symmetries;
massless spin-1 Lagrangians
and gauge invariance

HW #2 due in class

HW #3 (solutions)

Schwartz 8.3

Larkoski 2.2.3, Peskin 3.3
Wednesday
2/9/2022		 Gauge invariance and physical
polarizations, non-abelian
gauge fields		  

Schwartz 8.1, 8.2.3, 25.0

(Optional: Coleman 26.1-26.2)
5
Monday
2/14/2022
 Massive spin-1 Lagrangians;
Spin-1/2 Lagrangians;
 		  

Schwarts 8.2.2
Schwartz 10.2-10.4

Peskin 3.4
Wednesday
2/16/2022
 Noether's Theorem;
Writing down the
Standard Model		   Schwartz 3.3, 29.3, 25.3
6
Monday
2/21/2022
 Particle detectors, cross
sections and luminosity,
phase space		   Peskin Ch. 6, 7.1-7.3
Larkoski Ch. 5
ATLAS detector schematic
Wednesday
2/23/2022
 QED Lagrangian,
spinor wavefunctions

HW #3 due in class

HW #4 (solutions)

 Schwartz 11.2, 8.4.2
7
Monday
2/28/2022
 Vector wavefunctions;
Feynman rules for QED;
e+ e- → μ+ μ- cross section
 		 Schwartz 13.1-13.3
Wednesday
3/2/2022
 e+ e- → μ+ μ- cross section:
kinematic thresholds and
helicity amplitudes		  

Peskin 8.3

Schwartz 5.3
8
Monday
3/7/2022
 Lepton anomalous
magnetic moments

 

 Electron g-factor measurement
Schwartz Ch. 17
Wednesday
3/9/2022
 e+ e- → μ+ μ- γ; soft and
collinear singularities

HW #4 due in class

HW #5 (solutions)

Schwartz Ch. 20.1.2, 20.2, 20.3.2

Peskin 10.2
9
3/14-3/16/22
 No class - spring break  
 
10 Monday
3/21/2022		 Quarks and QCD:
R-ratio, QCD Feynman rules,
asymptotic freedom		  

Cross section and R ratio
in e+e- collisions

Jet angular distribution at ALEPH

Strong coupling running

Schwartz 26.3.1

Peskin 11.1-11.3, Larkoski 8.3.4
Wednesday
3/23/2022		 Parton distribution functions,
discovery of the top quark

HW #5 deadline extended
to Friday at 5pm

HW #6 (solutions)
Software readme
Mathematica event parser
Mathematica example
Python example
MadGraph tutorial
HepMC manual

Peskin 13.2, 13.5

Larkoski pp. 178, 184-187
11
Monday
3/28/2022
 The strong interaction
at low energies: the
chiral Lagrangian		  

Schwartz Ch. 28.1-28.2

Peskin 14.1-14.3

Force between quarks
Wednesday
3/30/2022
 Intro to spontaneous gauge
symmetry breaking

 

 Schwartz 28.3.1-28.3.2
Coleman 46.1
12
Monday
4/4/2022
 The Higgs mechanism
in the Standard Model

HW #6 due in class

HW #7 (solutions)

Schwartz 29.1-29.2

Peskin 16.2-16.3
Wednesday
4/6/2022
 Three generations: the
CKM and PMNS matrices,
Feynman rules for
electroweak interactions
 		 Schwartz 29.3

Larkoski 12.1-12.2
13
Monday
4/11/2022

Basic electroweak processes;
Neutrino oscillations

 

 Neutrino oscillations at KamLAND
Larkoski 12.3
Wednesday
4/13/2022
 Discovery of the W, Z,
and Higgs		 HW #7 due in class

HW #8 (solutions)		 Z boson lineshape
Higgs golden channel

Larkoski Ch. 13

Peskin 7.2, Ch. 17, Ch. 21
14
Monday
4/18/2022
 P and CP violation  

Schwartz 11.4-11.5, 29.5

Peskin 15.4, Ch. 19
Wednesday
4/20/2022
 The weak interaction
at low energies: 4-fermi theory

 

Schwartz 29.4

Peskin Ch. 15, Larkoski Ch. 10
15
Monday
4/25/2022
 Beyond the Standard Model:
introduction to EFTs and SMEFT

HW #8 due in class

HW #9 (solutions)

 Schwartz Ch. 22
Wednesday
4/27/2022
 Beyond the Standard Model:
dark matter


 

Scalar singlet model
DM lecture notes (not mine)
DM/CM review (mine)
16 Monday
5/2/22		 Fake gauge symmetry and
gravity as an EFT		   Schwartz 8.6, 8.7, 22.4
Wednesday
5/4/22		 Anomalies

HW #9 due in class

Take-home final assigned

 Schwartz 30.1-30.2, 30.4
17 5/9-5/13/22 NO CLASS: FINALS WEEK Take-home final due 5pm
5/12 to my.physics upload