Lecture 1 | Aug 20 | Nuclear interaction lengths and cross sections. |
Lecture 2 | Aug 22 | Differential cross sections, decay rates. |
Lecture 3 | Aug 27 | Relativity, 4-vector notation. |
Lecture 4 | Aug 29 | Relativistic kinematics. |
Lecture 5 | Sep 3 | Interaction of radiation with matter. |
Lecture 6 | Sep 5 | Particle detectors. |
Lecture 7 | Sep 10 | Calorimeters. |
Lecture 8 | Sep 12 | Gas proportional counters, silicon detectors. |
Lecture 9 | Sep 17 | Particle accelerators. |
Sep 19 | For some reason there was no lecture this day... | |
Lecture 10 | Sep 24 | Anti-particles, hadrons, and leptons. |
Lecture 11 | Sep 26 | The Quark Model. |
Lecture 12 | Oct 1 | s- and c-quarks. |
Lecture 13 | Oct 15 | b- and t-quarks. |
Lecture 14 | Oct 17 | Dirac equation. |
Lecture 15 | Oct 22 | Fermi's Golden Rule. |
Lecture 16 | Oct 24 | Feynman rules for QED. |
Lecture 17 | Oct 29 | Helicity, chirality, and weak interactions |
Lecture 18 | Oct 31 | Spooky higher order Feynman diagrams and scary renormalization |
Lecture 19 | Nov 5 | W and Z bosons. |
Lecture 20 | Nov 7 | Physics at LEP |
Lecture 21 | Nov 12 | Physics at LEP 1.5 and 2 |
Lecture 22 | Nov 14 | Gauge invariance in field theory |
Lecture 23 | Nov 19 | The Higgs and the GSW Model |
Lecture 24 | Nov 21 | Neutrinos |