Instructor: Dr. Christopher Aubin, Small 315A
Phone: x1-1860,
Email
Meeting Times: M W, 11-12:20, Small 152
Office Hours: TBD, and
by appointment only
Texts:
Introduction to Elementary Particles, by David Griffiths
Introduction to High Energy Physics, by Donald Perkins (recommended)
Click below for files relevant to a given lecture
The following books could also be useful:
- Particle Data Booklet
(http://pdg.lbl.gov/):
Order the Particle Physics Booklet (for free);
it has a lot of relevant information.
The Particle Data Book (also free)
is much more detailed, but not needed.
All of the particle data is freely available online.
- Non-field theoretic particle texts (theorists):
- Quarks & Leptons: An Introductory Course
in Modern Particle Physics, by F. Halzen & A.D. Martin.
- Non-field theoretic particle text (experimentalists, this is just
one of several):
- Particle Physics, 2nd Ed., B.R. Martin & G. Shaw.
- Field theory:
- Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, by Peskin & Schroeder.
- Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle Physics, by
Cheng & Li.
- Gauge Theory of Weak Interactions, by
Greiner & Mueller.
- Standard Model: Dynamics of the Standard Model, by John F. Donoghue, Eugene Golowich, & Barry R. Holstein.
Grade Policy:
Homeworks: 80%
Final Project: 20%
Syllabus:
On your own : Read Ch. 1 of Griffiths
[2 classes]
Introduction and Review; Units, special relativity (Griffiths Ch. 3)
[2 classes] Introduction to Particle Interactions (Griffiths Ch. 2, Perkins Ch. 2)
[3 classes] Group theory, symmetries, conservation laws (Griffiths Ch. 4, Perkins Ch. 3)
[3 classes] Quark model of hadrons (Griffiths Ch. 5, Perkins Ch. 4)
[1 class] Scattering/Decays (Griffiths Ch. 6, Perkins Ch. 2)
[4 classes] Quantum Electrodynamics (Griffiths Ch. 7, Perkins Ch. 5)
[3 classes] Hadronic structure (Griffiths Ch. 8, Perkins Ch. 5)
[3 classes] Quantum Chromodynamics (Griffiths Ch. 9, Perkins Ch. 6)
[5 classes] Weak interactions, the Standard Model and beyond (Griffiths Ch. 10, Perkins Chs. 7,8,9)
Important Dates:
Aug. 29, Sept. 5, 12, 19, 26: Make-up classes?
Sept. 29 and Oct. 1: No Class
Oct. 13: No Class (Fall Break)
Nov. 5: Project Ideas Due
Nov. 17, 19, 24: No Class
Nov. 26: No Class (Thanksgiving Break)