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