Physics 564 - Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics

Lecture notes and supplementary material


LectureMaterial Lecture notes
August 20Course information, historical introduction, overview (ppt|) pdf)
August 22 Special relativity, 4-vectors, Einstein summation convention 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
August 27 Natural units, energy-momentum 4-vector, εijk, proper lifetime 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
August 29 Kinematics of particle decays 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
September 5 3-body phase space, kinematics of particle production 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
September 10 Probability densities 1, 2, 3, 4.
September 12 Time evolution 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
September 17 Density of states 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
September 19 Decay rates and cross sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
September 24 Symmetries and conserved quantum numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
September 26 Hadrons: isospin and strangeness 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
October 1 Isospin relations 1, 2, 3, 4.
October 3 Quarks 1, 2, 3, 4.
October 8 The quark model 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
October 15 Magnetic moments, OZI rule, discovery of charm 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
October 17 Hadron spectroscopy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
October 22 Quantum electrodynamics of spinless particles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
October 24 Quantum electrodynamics of spinless particles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
October 29 2-body scattering of spinless particles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
October 31 Photons, the Dirac equation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
November 5 Solutions to the Dirac equation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 9.
November 7 Feynman rules for spin 1/2 particles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 9.
November 12 Electron scattering Tracer, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
November 14 Deep inelastic scattering 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.