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