Spring 2012 Syllabus (will be updated)
				Particles 613
				Lectures on Tue. and Thur. 1:40-3:00 pm, ARC 110
				(Reading refers to 3rd edition of textbook Aitcheson/Hey)
lec		date	day	Topic	Reading
1		1/17	Tue	Introduction-Overview	chap 1, chap 2
2		1/19	Th	Dirac Equation, Helicity	4.1, 4.2, 4.3
3		1/24	Tue	Transformations of Dirac Spinors	4.4
4		1/26	Th	Solutions Dirac Equation	4.5, 4.6
5		1/31	Tue	Field Theory	5.1, 5.2
6		2/2	Th	Quantized Fields	5.3, 7.1
7		2/7	Tue	Dirac Field, Local Gauge Invariance	7.2, 3.1 - 3.6
8		2/9	Th	Maxwell Vector Field	7.3, 7.4
9		2/14	Tue	S-matrix, Perturbation Theory	6.1, 6.2
10		2/16	Th	Decay Rate, Scattering, s-, t-, u-channel exchange	6.3
11		2/21	Tue	Propagators, Feynman Diagrams	6.3
12		2/23	Th	Cross Section, Charged Scalar Coulomb Scattering	6.3, 8.1
13		2/28	Tue	Electron Scattering from Charged Scalar	8.2, 8.3
14		3/1	Th	Electron-Muon Scattering	8.7
15		3/6	Tue	Electron-Proton Scattering, Elastic	8.8, 9.1
16		3/8	Th	Electron-Proton Scattering, Deep Inelastic, x-Scaling	9.2, 9.3
17		3/20	Tue	Drell-Yan process, Electron-Positron into Hadrons	9.4, 9.5
18		3/23	Fr	Exam (lec 1-14), 11:00am-2:00pm in Serin 372;
19		3/27	Tue	Loops, Renormalization, Running Coupling Constants	10.1-2, 11.1-5
20		3/29	Th	SU(2), SU(3) Local Gauge Invariance	12.1-3, 13.1, 13.4-5
21		4/3	Tue	Weak Interaction, Muon Decay, Weak Charged Current	20.2-4, 20.7-8
22		4/5	Th	W(+), W(-), Z(0) bosons, Electroweak Unified Interaction	22.1-2
23		4/10	Tue	Higgs Mechanism	17.5-6, 19.3, 19.6
24		4/12	Th	Standard Model	19.6, 22.6
25		4/17	Tue	Quark Flavor Mixing, CP Eigenstates	20.10, 22.3, 22.7
26		4/19	Th	CP Symmetry Breaking	handout
27		4/24	Tue	Neutrino Oscillations	handout
28		4/26	Th	SU(3)-flavor, SU(3)-color, Beyond Standard Model	12.2, 14.1-4
xx		4/30	Mo	classes end
		5/4	Fri	Final Exam, Serin 372, 11:00am-2:00pm