DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
COLLEGE PARK
PHYSICS 751 Fall 2005
(updated October 31, 2005)
Topic: Elementary
This course will be a broad ranging introduction to particle physics. Physics
624 is a co-requisite. Topics to be covered include: quarks, leptons, the weak,
strong and electromagnetic interactions, symmetry principles including CP
violation, neutrino oscillations experimental methods including modern particle
physics detectors.
Instructor:
Prof. Nicholas Hadley,
Room 4319
hadley@umd.edu, http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~hadley/
Text: Introduction
to High Energy Physics, D.H. Perkins (4th
ed) (ISBN 0 521 62196 8)
and Quarks and Leptons, F.
Halzen and A.D. Martin (ISBN 0-471-88741-2)
Web Page:
http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~hadley/P751/p_751_2005.html
Lecture: Tuesday
and Thursday 2:00PM-3:15PM Room 1219
Office Hours: My office hours will be on Tues.
If these hours are inconvenient, please arrange to see me any other time in my
office.
Homework: There will be about 10 problem
sets assigned during the semester.
Term Paper: There
will be a term paper on a topic mutually agreed upon by the student and the
instructor.
Grade: The
semester grade will be based on the homework and the term paper
with the following tentative weights: homework 60%, term paper 40%.
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Preliminary
Class Schedule |
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Thur. Sept. 1 |
Introduction |
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Tues. Sept. 6 |
Quarks and Leptons (I) |
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Thur. Sept. 8 |
Quarks and Leptons (II) |
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Tues. Sept. 13 |
Forces: EM, weak, strong (I) |
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Thur. Sept. 15 |
Forces: EM, weak, strong (II) |
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Tues. Sept. 20 |
Interactions of Particles with Matter |
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Thur. Sept. 22 |
Detectors and Accelerators (I) |
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Tues. Sept. 27 |
Detectors and Accelerator (II) |
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Thur. Sept. 29 |
Invariance Principles and Conservation Laws |
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Tues. Oct. 4 |
Invariance Principles and Conservation Laws |
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Thur. Oct. 6 |
Invariance Principles and Conservation Laws |
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Tues. Oct. 11 |
Quarks and Hadrons (I) |
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Thur. Oct. 13 |
Quarks and Hadrons (II) |
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Tues. Oct. 18 |
Lepton and Quark Scattering (I) |
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Thur. Oct. 20 |
Lepton and Quark Scattering (II) |
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Tues. Oct. 25 |
Lepton and Quark Scattering (III) |
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Thur. Oct. 38 |
Deep Inelastic Scattering and Partons |
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Tues. Nov. 1 |
Deep Inelastic Scattering and Partons |
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Thur. Nov. 3 |
QCD (I) |
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Tues. Nov. 8 |
QCD (II) |
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Thur. Nov. 10 |
Weak Interactions (I) |
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Tues. Nov. 15 |
Weak Interactions : CP Violation |
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Thur. Nov. 17 |
Weak Interactions: Neutrino Oscillations |
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Tues. Nov. 22 |
The Standard Model |
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Thur. Nov. 24 |
Thanksgiving: No class |
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Tues. Nov. 29 |
Beyond the Standard Model: Supersymmetry,
Extra Dimensions and Technicolor |
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Thur. Dec. 1 |
Beyond the Standard Model: Supersymmetry,
Extra Dimensions and Technicolor |
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Tues. Dec. 6 |
LHC Physics |
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Thur. Dec. 8 |
B Quark Physics |
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Tues. Dec. 13 |
Last Class, Term paper Due |