Physics 474 reading, Spring 2007

All reading is from the course textbook, Particle Physics by Martin and Shaw, unless specified otherwise.

Class Topic Reading
Wed Jan 17 Fermions and bosons None
Fri Jan 19 Intro to the standard model None
Mon Jan 22 Antiparticles Sect 1.2, p 2-8
Wed Jan 24Feynman diagrams Sect 1.3, p 8-14
Fri Jan 26 Forces via particle exchange Sect 1.4, p 14-18
Mon Jan 29 Natural units Sect 1.5, p 18-20
Wed Jan 31 Leptons: electrons and neutrinos Sect 2.1, p 22-25
Fri Feb 2 Leptons: second and third generations Sect 2.1, p 25-29
Mon Feb 5 Hadrons and flavor Sect 2.2, p 30-34
Wed Feb 8 Lisa Randall's Assembly Series lecture None
Fri Feb 9 Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) not in book
Mon Feb 12 Pions and SSB Sect 2.2, p 35-37
Wed Feb 14 Second and third generation hadrons Sect 2.2, p 37-42
Fri Feb 16 Experimental methods: accelerators Sect 3.1, p 45-50
Mon Feb 19 Experimental methods: detectors Sect 3.3, p 58-70
Wed Feb 21 Symmetries and groups not in book
Fri Feb 23 Symmetries and conservation laws not in book
Mon Feb 26 Translational symmetry Sect 4.2, p 80-81
Wed Feb 28 Rotational symmetry Sect 4.2, p 82-86
Fri Mar 2 The spin of hadrons Sect 4.2, p 86-88
Mon Mar 5 MIDTERM
Wed Mar 7 Parity symmetry (P) Sect 4.3, p 88-94
Fri Mar 9 The Higgs mechanism
========== SPRING BREAK
Mon Mar 19 Charge conjugation (C) Sect 4.4, p 95-96
Wed Mar 21 C and P symmetry examples Sect 4.4, p 96-98
Fri Mar 23 Isospin and mesons Sect 5.1, 5.2, p 106-111, Appendix D
Mon Mar 26 Isospin and baryons Sect 5.2, p 111-113
Wed Mar 28 Resonances Sect 5.3, p 115-122
Fri Mar 30 Quantum chromodynamics Sect 7.1, p 149-157
Mon Apr 2 Isospin breaking Sect 5.2.4, p 114
Wed Apr 4 Nuclei: introduction Handout, p 33-47
Fri Apr 6 Liquid drop model Handout, p 50-55
Mon Apr 9 beta-decay of nuclei Handout, p 55-58
Wed Apr 11 alpha-decay and fission Handout, p 59-61
Fri Apr 13 Weak interactions of quarks Sect 8.2 p 190-204
Mon Apr 16 The Z boson and neutral currents Sect 9.1 p 218-230
Wed Apr 18 Parity violation by weak interactions Sect 10.1.0,10.2.1 p 240-241,248-252
Fri Apr 20 K-short regeneration Sect 10.2.4 p 255-257
Mon Apr 23 strangeness oscillations Sect 10.2.5 p 257-260
Wed Apr 24 Neutrino mixing, supersymmetry Sect 11.1, 11.3 p 262-265,274-276
Fri Apr 27 Grand Unified Theories, cosmology Sect 11.2 p 267-273

Valid XHTML 1.0!