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| Instructor: | Jones |
| Email: | mjones@physics.purdue.edu |
| Title: | Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics |
| Offering: | Sem. 1, Class 3, cr. 3. |
| Room : | PHYS 398 |
| Time : | Currently 9:00-10:15 Tuesday and Thursday |
| Prerequisites: | Phys 360/550, 552, or equivalent. May be taken simultaneously. |
| Text: | Perkins, Introduction to High Energy Physics, 4th ed. |
| Description: |
Historical survey of the discovery of elementary particles. Methods of detecting charged particles. Modern particle accelerators and detectors. Kinematics and quantum mechanics of scattering and decay of particles. Introduction to Feynman diagrams for spin-less particles. The Dirac equation; Feynman diagrams for spin 1/2 particles. Hadronic resonances; strangeness and isospin symmetry. The quark model. Weak decays. Production of charmed hadrons. Properties of charm and bottom hadrons; heavy quark symmetry. Introduction to CP violation. Deep inelastic scattering experiments. Weak interactions; neutrinos and neutrino scattering experiments; weak neutral currents. e+e- scattering experiments; the Weinberg-Salam model; introduction to quantum chromodynamics. Survey of some modern experiments; e+e- collider, fixed target and hadron collider experiments. Future experiments. |
| Assignments: | Assignment #1, due September 30. |
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