Brief summary of lectures | |
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| F+H. Ch. 1 | |
| Lecture 1: Mon, Jan. 13, 1997 |
Introduction, discussion of syllabus. (What is particle physics about? - intro to standard model) |
| F+H. Ch. 2 | |
| Lecture 2: Wed, Jan. 15, 1997 |
Accelerators: Van de Graaffs, Linacs, Synchrotons. Beam optics and focusing. |
| F+H. Ch. 3 | |
| Lecture 3: Fri, Jan. 17, 1997 |
Relativistic kinematics of collisions. Interactions of radiation with matter. (Bethe Bloch) Photons and electrons. |
| (Mon, Jan. 20 = MLK Holiday) | F+H. Ch. 4 |
| Lecture 4: Wed, Jan. 22, 1997 |
Detectors |
| F+H. Ch. 5 | |
| Lecture 5: Fri, Jan. 24, 1997 |
Masses and spin |
| Lecture 6: Mon, Jan. 27, 1997 |
Lifetimes, Lorentzian curve, connection to uncertainty principle. |
| Lecture 7: Wed, Jan. 29, 1997 |
Gauge bosons, leptons, mesons, and hadrons. |
| Lecture 8: Fri, Jan. 31, 1997 |
Quarks, excited states, and resonances. |
| F+H. Ch. 6 | |
| Lecture 9: Mon, Feb. 3, 1997 |
Structure, cross sections, flux and luminosity, Born approximation. |
| Lecture 10: Wed, Feb. 5, 1997 |
Rutherford scattering, nonpointlike targets => form factors |
| Lecture 11: Fri, Feb. 7, 1997 |
Form factors of nuclei, fermi distribution and radius => liquid drops. nuclear shell model. CEBAF -> TJNAF |
| Lecture 12: Mon, Feb. 10, 1997 |
Structureless objects, QED, magnetic moments |
| Lecture 13: Wed, Feb. 12, 1997 |
Proton form factors, Rosenbluth. (Brief intro to Inelastic scattering) |
| Lecture 14: Fri, Feb. 14, 1997 |
Inelastic and Deep Inelastic Scattering. (Introduce Ch. 7?) |
| F+H. Ch. 7 | |
| Lecture 15: Mon, Feb. 17, 1997 |
Sean's lecture: Connection between conserved quantities and symmetries. |
| Lecture 16: Wed, Feb. 19, 1997 |
More on Noether's theorem. Conservation of charge, and the idea of global and local phase (gauge) symmetry. |
| Lecture 17: Fri, Feb. 21, 1997 |
Baryon and lepton number. Antimatter (and interpretations) |
| Lecture 18: Mon, Feb. 24, 1997 |
Strangeness, hypercharge. |
| F+H. Ch. 8 | |
| Lecture 19: Wed, Feb. 26, 1997 |
Start Ch. 8, Conservation of angular momentum and intro to isospin. |
| Lecture 20: Fri, Feb. 28, 1997 |
More isospin - connection to quark model (plots of hypercharge vs I3) |
| Lecture 21: Mon, Mar 3, 1997 |
Addition of isospin, and Clebsh Gordon coefficients. |
| Lecture 22: Wed, Mar 5, 1997 |
More addition of I, I in nuclear physics. Intro to parity. (.ytirap ot ortnI) |
| F+H. Ch. 9 | |
| Lecture 23: Fri, Mar 7, 1997 |
Parity, formalism, use as conservation law. |
| Lecture 24: Mon, Mar 10, 1997 |
More parity - intrinsic parity of particles. (Why is it arbitrary? What can you still conclude?) Parity of pion |
| Lecture 25: Wed, Mar 12, 1997 |
Exam review! |
| (Thurs, Mar 13, Exam 1) | |
| Lecture 26: Fri, Mar 14, 1997 |
More examples of parity - compute and confirm the parity of simple nuclei. Searches for parity violation. |
| Lecture 27: Mon, Mar 17, 1997 |
Parity violation - beta decay of Lee/Yang/Wu. Discussion of helicity. Parity violating electron scattering. Feynman diagrams for weak interactions. |
| Lecture 28: Wed, Mar 19, 1997 |
Charge conjugation, C. Eigenfunctions of C, and examples. |
| Lecture 29: Fri, Mar 21, 1997 |
Tour of Wieman's atomic parity violation experiment! |
| (Mar 24-28) Spring Break | |
| Lecture 30: Mon, Mar 31, 1997 |
Time Reversal. |
| Lecture 31: Wed, Apr 2, 1997 |
Kaon systems, Kaon oscillations. |
| Lecture 32: Fri, Apr 4, 1997 |
CP violation. (Finish Ch. 9) |
| F+H Ch. 10 | |
| Lecture 33: Mon, Apr 7, 1997 |
Start on EM interactions: Fermi's Golden Rule |
| Lecture 34: Wed, Apr 9, 1997 |
Phase space, and connection to Fermi's Golden Rule. |
| Lecture 35: Fri, Apr 11, 1997 |
Electromagnetism in quantum mechanics, current-current interaction, photon emission calculation. |
| Lecture 36: Mon, Apr 14, 1997 |
Finish single photon emission, electric dipole approximation, multipole radiation. |
| Lecture 37: Wed, Apr 16, 1997 |
Scattering, QED, Feynman rules, relativistic generalizations. |
| Lecture 38: Fri, Apr 18, 1997 |
Tests of QED, QED with strongly interacting particles, vector meson dominance, QCD "R" ratio and existence of color. |
| F+H Ch. 11 | |
| Lecture 39: Mon, Apr 21, 1997 |
Introduction to weak interactions. Beta decays, phase space, Fermi's 4 point interaction. |
| Lecture 40: Wed, Apr 23, 1997 |
Weak interaction Feynman diagrams, current-current form, more examples. GIM mechanism. |
| (Thurs, Apr 24, Presentations cancelled- snow!) | |
| Lecture 41: Fri, Apr 25, 1997 |
Optional lecture - nuclear physics phenomenology, spin orbit couplings. (So we can understand what the School of Mines students did for their projects!) |
| Lecture 42: Mon, Apr 28, 1997 |
Impromptu lecture on Feynman diagrams and field theory. |
| Lecture 43: Wed, Apr 30, 1997 |
Weak interactions: semileptonic, leptonic, hadronic. Muon decay rate. Parity violation, and helicity. Flavor changing neutral currents. |
| Thurs, May 1, Presentations, with School of Mines students. | |
| Fri, May 2, Class cancelled (due to presentations) | |
| Lecture 44: Mon, Apr 28, 1997 |
Last lecture. Principles of gauge theory, and the Standard Model. Higgs, possible future(s) of particle physics. |
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