Physics 56500 - Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics II

Lecture notes and supplementary material


Lecture 1 Jan 11 Introduction
Lecture 2 Jan 13 Overview of experimental observations
Lecture 3 Jan 15 Fock space, creation and annihilation operators
Lecture 4 Jan 20 Operators, normalization of states, field operators, Lagrangian formulation
Lecture 5 Jan 25 Gauge symmetry, conserved currents
Lecture 6 Jan 27 Energy-momentum tensor
Lecture 7 Feb 1 Fields with spin 1
Lecture 8 Feb 3 Spin 1/2 fields
Lecture 9 Feb 8 Spin 1/2 fields (continued)
Lecture 10 Feb 10 Interactions between fields
Lecture 11 Feb 15 Yang-Mills gauge fields
Lecture 12 Feb 17 Green's functions/Feynman propagator
Lecture 13 Feb 22 Sources/perturbation theory
Lecture 14 Feb 24 Feynman rules
Lecture 15 Mar 1 Feynman diagrams, cross sections
Lecture 16 Mar 8 Examples
Lecture 17 Mar 10 Spin 1/2 examples
Lecture 18 Mar 22 Weak interactions
Lecture 19 Mar 29 Electroweak unification
Lecture 20 Mar 31 Right-handed leptons, toy model for spontaneous symmetry breaking
Lecture 21 Apr 5 Spontaneous symmetry breaking, generation of mass
Lecture 22 Apr 7 Family structure of the Standard Model
Lecture 23 Apr 12 Angular distributions in Z decay
Lecture 24 Apr 14 Z cross section, forward-backward asymmetries
Lecture 25 Apr 19 Higgs production and decay
Lecture 26 Apr 21 Renormalization of α, me and mH - Naturalness problem
Lecture 27 Apr 26 Basic ideas of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model