DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
COLLEGE PARK
PHYSICS 751 Fall
2006
(updated August 14, 2006)
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 11:00AM-12:15PM Room 4208
Office Hours: My office hours will be on Tues. 2PM-3PM and Wed.
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. Aug. 31 |
Introduction |
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Tues. Sept. 5 |
Quarks and Leptons (I) |
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Thur. Sept. 7 |
Quarks and Leptons (II) |
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Tues. Sept. 12 |
Forces: EM, weak, strong (I) |
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Thur. Sept. 14 |
Forces: EM, weak, strong (II) |
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Tues. Sept. 19 |
Interactions of Particles with Matter |
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Thur. Sept. 21 |
Detectors and Accelerators (I) |
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Tues. Sept. 26 |
Detectors and Accelerator (II) |
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Thur. Sept. 28 |
Invariance Principles and Conservation Laws |
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Tues. Oct. 3 |
Invariance Principles and Conservation Laws |
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Thur. Oct. 5 |
Invariance Principles and Conservation Laws |
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Tues. Oct. 10 |
Quarks and Hadrons (I) |
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Thur. Oct. 12 |
Quarks and Hadrons (II) |
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Tues. Oct. 17 |
Lepton and Quark Scattering (I) |
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Thur. Oct. 19 |
Lepton and Quark Scattering (II) |
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Tues. Oct. 24 |
Lepton and Quark Scattering (III) |
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Thur. Oct. 26 |
Deep Inelastic Scattering and Partons |
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Tues. Oct. 31 |
Deep Inelastic Scattering and Partons |
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Thur. Nov. 2 |
QCD (I) |
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Tues. Nov. 7 |
QCD (II) |
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Thur. Nov. 9 |
Weak Interactions (I) |
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Tues. Nov. 14 |
Weak Interactions : CP Violation |
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Thur. Nov. 16 |
Weak Interactions: Neutrino Oscillations |
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Tues. Nov. 21 |
The Standard Model |
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Thur. Nov. 23 |
Thanksgiving: No class |
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Tues. Nov. 28 |
Beyond the Standard Model: Supersymmetry, Extra
Dimensions and Technicolor |
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Thur. Nov. 30 |
Beyond the Standard Model: Supersymmetry, Extra
Dimensions and Technicolor |
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Tues. Dec. 5 |
LHC Physics |
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Thur. Dec. 7 |
B Quark Physics |
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Tues. Dec. 12 |
Last Class, Term paper Due |