Tentative outline of Physics 4420, Spring '97

1) Tools: Accelerators and detectors

2) Introduction to the "Zoo": Descriptions of hadrons, leptons, and forces

3) Methods (mathematical and physical) to describe structure, including cross sections and form factors.

4) Symmetry and conservations laws. (Continuous (L, I) and discrete (C,P, and T)

5) Reactions: Fermi's Golden Rule and Phase Space

6) E+M: Photons and radiation

7) Weak interactions: beta decay, currents...

8) Strong interactions: Nuclear physics, nuclear forces, and quarks

9) Field theory: Gauge theories and unification

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