Spring 2016 Syllabus (will be updated as we go)
Particles 613
Lectures on Tue. and Thur. 3:20-4:40 pm, SEC 202
(Reading refers to 4th edition of textbook Aitcheson/Hey)
lec date day Topic Reading
1 1/19 Tue Introduction-Overview chap 1
2 1/21 Th Dirac Equation, Helicity 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
3 1/26 Tue Solutions Dirac Equation 3.4, 3.5
4 1/28 Th Transformations of Dirac Spinors 4.1
5 2/2 Tue Field Theory 5.1, 5.2
6 2/4 Th Quantized Fields 5.3, 7.1
7 2/9 Tue Dirac Field, Local Gauge Invariance 7.2, 2.1 - 2.6
8 2/11 Th Maxwell Vector Field 7.3, 7.4
9 2/16 Tue S-matrix, Perturbation Theory 6.1, 6.2
10 2/18 Th Decay Rate, Scattering, s-, t-, u-channel exchange 6.3
11 2/23 Tue Propagators, Feynman Diagrams 6.3
12 2/25 Th Cross Section, Charged Scalar Coulomb Scattering 6.3, 8.1
13 3/1 Tue Electron Scattering from Charged Scalar 8.2, 8.3
14 3/3 Th Electron-Muon Scattering 8.7
15 3/8 Tue Electron-Proton Scattering, Elastic 8.8, 9.1
16 3/10 Th Electron-Proton Scattering, Deep Inelastic, x-Scaling 9.2, 9.3
17 3/22 Tue Drell-Yan process, Electron-Positron into Hadrons 9.4, 9.5
18 3/24 Th no lecture, take-home Exam (lec 1-14), due 3/29;
19 3/29 Tue Loops, Renormalization, Running Coupling Constants 10.1-2, 11.1-5
20 3/31 Th SU(2), SU(3) Local Gauge Invariance 12.1-4, 13.1-3
21 4/5 Tue Weak Interaction, Muon Decay, Weak Charged Current 20.2, 20.4-5
22 4/7 Th W(+), W(-), Z(0) bosons, Electroweak Unified Interaction 22.2
23 4/12 Tue Higgs Mechanism 17.5-6, 19.3, 19.6
24 4/14 Th Standard Model 19.6, 22.5
25 4/19 Tue Quark Flavor Mixing, CP Eigenstates 20.7.1, 20.7.3, 22.2.3, 22.5
26 4/21 Th CP Symmetry Breaking 21.1, 21.3
27 4/26 Tue Neutrino Oscillations 21.4
28 4/28 Th SU(3)-flavor, SU(3)-color, Beyond Standard Model 12.2-3, 14.1-2
xx 5/2 Mo classes end
5/6 Fri? Take-Home Final Exam (lec 15-28), due 5/6.