Physics 56400 - Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics I

Lecture notes and supplementary material


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