Spring 2009 Syllabus
				Particles 613
				Lectures on Tue. and Fri. 10:20-11:40 pm, ARC 108
				(Reading refers to 3rd edition of textbook Aitcheson/Hey)
lec		date	day	Topic	Reading
1		1/20	Tue	Introduction-Overview	chap 1, chap 2
2		1/23	Fr	Dirac Equation, Helicity	4.1, 4.2, 4.3
3		1/27	Tue	Transformations of Dirac Spinors	4.4
4		1/30	Fr	Solutions Dirac Equation	4.5, 4.6
5		2/3	Tue	Field Theory	5.1, 5.2
6		2/6	Fr	Quantized Fields	5.3, 7.1
7		2/10	Tue	Dirac Field, Local Gauge Invariance	7.2, 3.1 - 3.6
8		2/13	Fr	Maxwell Vector Field	7.3, 7.4
9		2/17	Tue	S-matrix, Perturbation Theory	6.1, 6.2
10		2/20	Fr	Decay Rate, Scattering, s-, t-, u-channel exchange	6.3
11		2/24	Tue	Propagators, Feynman Diagrams	6.3
12		2/27	Fr	Cross Section, Charged Scalar Coulomb Scattering	6.3, 8.1
13		3/3	Tue	Electron Scattering from Charged Scalar	8.2, 8.3
14		3/6	Fr	Electron-Muon Scattering	8.7
15		3/10	Tue	Electron-Proton Scattering, Elastic	8.8, 9.1
16		3/13	Fr	Electron-Proton Scattering, Deep Inelastic, x-Scaling	9.2, 9.3
17		3/24	Tue	Drell-Yan process, Electron-Positron into Hadrons	9.4, 9.5
18		3/27	Fr	Exam (lec 1-14);
19		3/31	Tue	Loops, Renormalization, Running Coupling Constants	10.1-2, 11.1-5
20		4/3	Fr	SU(2), SU(3) Local Gauge Invariance	12.1-3, 13.1, 13.4-5
21		4/7	Tue	Weak Interaction, Muon Decay, Weak Charged Current	20.2-4, 20.7-8
22		4/10	Fr	W(+), W(-), Z(0) bosons, Electroweak Unified Interaction	22.1-2
23		4/14	Tue	Higgs Mechanism	17.5-6, 19.3, 19.6
24		4/17	Fr	Standard Model	19.6, 22.6
25		4/21	Tue	Quark Flavor Mixing, CP Eigenstates	20.10, 22.3, 22.7
26		4/24	Fr	CP Symmetry Breaking	handout
27		4/28	Tue	Neutrino Oscillations	handout
28		5/1	Fr	SU(3)-flavor, SU(3)-color, Beyond Standard Model	12.2, 14.1-4
		5/13	Wed	Final Exam