All reading is from the course textbook,
Particle Physics
by Martin and Shaw (3rd edition),
unless specified otherwise.
| Class | Topic | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Mon Jan 12 | Intro to the standard model | Sect 1.1, p 1-2; The SLAC E158 overview page |
| Wed Jan 14 | NO CLASS | |
| Fri Jan 16 | Antiparticles I | Sect 1.2, p 3-5 |
| Mon Jan 19 | NO CLASS | |
| Wed Jan 21 | Antiparticles II | Sect 1.2, p 6-9 |
| Fri Jan 23 | Feynman diagrams | Sect 1.3, p 9-17 |
| Mon Jan 26 | Mediation of forces via particle exchange | Sect 1.4, p 18-22 |
| Wed Jan 28 | Natural units | Sect 1.5, p 22-25 |
| Fri Jan 30 | 1st family leptons: electrons and neutrinos | Sect 2.1, p 27-31 |
| Mon Feb 2 | Leptons: second and third families | Sect 2.1, p 31-33 |
| Wed Feb 4 | Universality of weak interactions | Sect 2.2, p 34-38 |
| Fri Feb 6 | Neutrino mixing | Sect 2.3, p 38-49 |
| Mon Feb 9 | Quarks and Hadrons | Sect 3.1,3.2, p 51-57 |
| Wed Feb 11 | NO CLASS | |
| Fri Feb 13 | 1st family hadrons: pions and nucleons | Sect 3.3, p 57-60 |
| Mon Feb 16 | Pions and chiral symmetry breaking | not in book |
| Wed Feb 18 | Hadrons: second and third families | Sect 3.4, p 60-65 |
| Fri Feb 20 | Relativistic Kinematics I | Appendix A, p 335-337 |
| Mon Feb 23 | Relativistic Kinematics II | Sect A.2 p 337-339 |
| Wed Feb 25 | Cross sections | Sect B.1, B.2 p 343-348 |
| Fri Feb 27 | Hadronic resonances | Sect 3.5 p 66-70 |
| Mon Mar 2 | Exotics | Sect 3.6 p 71-73 |
| Wed Mar 4 | MIDTERM | |
| Fri Mar 6 | Accelerators and beams | Sect 4.2 p 77-82 |
| Mar 9-13 | === SPRING BREAK === | |
| Mon Mar 16 | Symmetries and groups | not in book |
| Wed Mar 18 | Translational invariance | Sect 5.1 p 118-120 |
| Fri Mar 20 | NO CLASS | |
| Mon Mar 23 | Rotational invariance | Sect 5.2 p 120-123 |
| Wed Mar 25 | Spin of hadrons | Sect 5.2 p 124-127 |
| Fri Mar 27 | Parity I | Sect 5.3 p 127-130 |
| Mon Mar 30 | Parity II | Sect 5.4 p 130-134 |
| Wed Apr 1 | Supersymmetry I | Prof. Ferrer, guest lecture |
| Fri Apr 3 | Supersymmetry II | Prof. Ferrer, guest lecture |
| Mon Apr 6 | Charge conjugation | Sect 5.4 p 134-138 |
| Wed Apr 8 | Isospin I | Sect 6.1 p 148-153 |
| Fri Apr 10 | Isospin II | Sect 6.2 p 154-156 |
| Mon Apr 13 | Weak interactions of quarks | Sect 8.1 p 219-229 |
| Wed Apr 15 | Cabibbo angle | Sect 8.1 p 230-236 |
| Fri Apr 17 | Dark matter | Prof. Ferrer, guest lecture |
| Mon Apr 20 | Parity violation by weak interactions | Sect 10.1.0,10.2.1 p 279-280,288-291 |
| Wed Apr 22 | K-short regeneration | Sect 10.2.2 p 291-292 |
| Fri Apr 24 | Strangeness oscillations | Sect 10.3 p 299-303 |