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PHYSICS 557-8 - Particle Physics Autumn 2012, Winter 2013
Time and day: 1:30-2:20 PM MWF Room: A110
Instructor: Prof. Stephen D. Ellis Office: B401 (PAB) Telephone: 5-2396 Email: sdellis@u.washington.edu Office Hours: Th 1:30 - 3:15 PM
TA: Han-Chih Chang Office: B418 Office Hours: Wed 2:00 - 3:00 PM
To send email to everyone in the class use - phys558a_wi13@u.washington.edu
The latest Higgs results from CERN can be found at
Here is an animated GIF file from ATLAS showing the Higgs bump appear in the data.
Recent Higgs related articles in the New York Times:
Chasing the Higgs (3/5/13) All Signs Point to Higgs Boson (3/5/13)
Talk on scale choices by S.D. Ellis at the UW Terascale Higgs Workshop 1/23/13
A review talk by Adam Falkowski from 11/29/12 can be found here.
The latest results from the LHC can be found here — http://cern.ch/lpcc
A video of the UW HEP Group’s presentations at the “Higgs Night Out” held at T.S. McHugh's on the evening of 7/3/12 can be found at http://kcts9.org/education/science-cafe/higgs-boson-explained
NYT 10/7/11 OP-Ed piece on The Universe, Dark Energy and Us
You may find it informative and entertaining to watch the 1964 Messenger Lectures by Richard Feynman now available on the web courtesy of Microsoft (some of the material is relevant to this course)
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html
Physics 557-8
Overview: The first quarter of this sequence is recommended for all Physics Ph.D. candidates. The general topic is particle physics with an emphasis on descriptive phenomenology, symmetries, and the general properties of particle dynamics -- a “building block” view of the Standard Model. A prior exposure to Feynman graph techniques is not required, but you want to learn to use them quickly. The bulk of the contents on this page is currently from previous years (but I will be updated it). I encourage you to read the past lectures, especially the “historical” parts. Given the events of July, 2012, i.e., the confirmation of a Higgs-like particle at the LHC (see the link above), we will move quickly to a discussion of the Standard Model and the role of the Higgs field and the Higgs boson. It is intended that the content will be relevant to the majority of Physics Ph.D. candidates. The (tentative) syllabus for this course is here.
The course is not intended to be a heavy burden for students already investing considerable time in starting up their research. The grade will be based entirely on the homework assignments to be made each week. You are encouraged to discuss the problems with your classmates but each student must turn in individual papers. Turn in the HW in class on the due date or place it in my mail box before the end of class on the due date. (Since I try to keep track of the HW, do not turn in the HW directly to the TA.) You can also use email to address questions to me. Work turned in during the week following the due date will be accepted but discounted by 50%. No HW will be accepted after the last class of the quarter. Assignments and solutions will be posted on the web.
I have found no ideal textbook for this course (see comments in the following textbook list) and will attempt to account for this issue by providing written lecture notes, available both in class and on the web. I will also attempt, as noted above/below, to provide pointers to relevant resources on the web.
UW Holidays Winter 2013 — Monday 1/21/13, Monday 2/18/13
HW assignments and solutions will be posted on our Catalyst Commonview
HW grades will be posted on our Catalyst Gradebook
Physics 558 Lectures Winter 2013
Lecture 20 (1/7/13) Calculating Electroweak Interactions Lecture 21 (1/7/13, 1/9/13) More Comments on the SM of Electroweak Interactions Lecture 22 (1/11/13, 1/14/13) QED, Feynman rules and cross sections Lecture 23 (1/16/13, 11/18/13) More on Scattering in E&M Lecture 24 (1/25/13, 1/28/13, 1/30/13) Introduction to SuperSymmetry Lecture 24 Appendix (2/1/13) Brief Introduction to SUSY and Fields: The Wess-Zumino Model Lecture 25 (2/1/13, 2/4/13) Neutrino masses, mixing and oscillations Lecture 26 (2/6/13, 2/8/13) The Neutral Kaon System: An Introduction Lecture 27 (2/8/13, 2/11/13) The Neutral Kaon System: Technical Details Lecture 27 Appendix (2/11/13, 2/13/13) The Box Diagram Lecture 28 (2/13/13, 2/15/13) The Neutral Kaon System: Technical Details II (Decays and CP violation) Lecture 29 (2/20/13) The Neutral B System Lecture 30 (2/22/13) (Re) Introduction to QCD, Feynman rules and renormalized couplings Lecture 30 Appendix A (2/22/13) Comments on propagators Lecture 30 Appendix B (2/22/13) Dimensional Regularization Lecture 31 (2/25/13, 2/27/13) The Strong Interactions I: The Quark/Parton Model Lecture 32 (2/27/13, 3/1/13) The Strong Interactions II: The QCD Improved Parton Model Lecture 33 (3/1/13, 3/4/13) The Strong Interactions III: More on the QCD Improved Parton Model and Perturbative QCD Lecture 34 (3/6/13, 3/8/13) The Strong Interactions IV: Even More on the QCD Improved Parton Model and Perturbative QCD
Physics 557 Lectures Autumn 2012
Lecture 1 (9/24/12, 9/26/12) Introduction Lecture 2 (9/26/12, 9/28/12) Units, Sizes and Vocabulary Lecture 3 (10/1/12, 10/3/12) Introduction to Cosmology Lecture 4 (10/5/12, 10/8/12) Relativistic Notation, Kinematics and Symmetries Lecture 5 (10/8/12, 10/10/12) Introduction to Group Theory Lecture 5 Appendix (10/10/12) Antisymmetric Structure Constants Lecture 6 (10/12/10, 10/15/12, 10/17/12) Collisions, Scattering and more Kinematics Lecture 7 (10/17/12) Accelerators, Detectors and Experiments—read outside class Lecture 8 (10/19/12, 10/22/12, 10/24/12) Quantum Numbers of the Standard Model Lecture 8 Appendix (10/19/12) Young diagrams, Clebsch-Gordan coeff. Lecture 9 (10/26/12, 10/29/12, 10/31/12) Intro to the Particles – Leptons, Nucleons and Pions Lecture 9 Appendix (10/29/12) Spin, helicity, handedness, etc. Lecture 10 (10/31/12, 11/2/12) Strangeness, Resonances and Flavor SU(3) (cover quickly) Lecture 10 Appendix (11/2/12) Hadron Masses Lecture 11 (11/5/12) Excitations and Regge Behavior Lecture 12 (11/7/12) Even Heavier Quarks (SU(4) Appendix) Lecture 14 (11/14/12, 11/16/12) Local Gauge Invariance and Gauge Bosons II - QED, SU(2) and QCD Lecture 15 (11/16/12, 11/19/12) Local Gauge Invariance and Gauge Bosons III - More Group Theory Lecture 16 (11/19/12, 11/21/12) The effective theory of the weak interactions Lecture 17 (11/21/12, 11/26/12, 11/28/12) (Re)Introduction to Symmetry Breaking Lecture 18 (11/30/12, 12/3/12) Standard Model of Electroweak Interactions (Weinberg-Salam) Lecture 19 (12/5/12, 12/7/12) Feynman rules for Electroweak Interactions Lecture 20 (12/7/12) Calculating Electroweak Interactions
Physics 557 Lectures Autumn 2011
Lecture 1 (9/28/11, 9/30/11) Introduction Lecture 2 (9/30/11, 10/3/11, 10/5/11) Units and Sizes Lecture 3 (10/7/11, 10/10/11) Introduction to Cosmology Lecture 4 (10/12/11 and 10/14/11) Relativistic Notation and Kinematics Lecture 5 (10/17/11 and 10/19/11) Introduction to Group Theory Lecture 5 Appendix (10/17/11) Antisymmetric Structure Constants Lecture 6 (10/21/11, 10/24/11 and 10/26/11) Collisions, Scattering and more Kinematics Lecture 7 (10/28/11, 10/31/11) Accelerators, Detectors and Experiments Lecture 8 (11/2/11, 11/4/11, 11/7/11) Quantum Numbers of the Standard Model Lecture 8 Appendix (Young diagrams), Clebsch-Gordan coeff. Lecture 9 (11/7/11, 11/9/11, 11/14/11, 11/16/11) Intro to the Particles – Leptons, Nucleons and Pions Lecture 9 Appendix (11/9/11) Spin, helicity, handedness, etc. Lecture 10 (11/18/11. 11/21/11) Strangeness, Resonances and Flavor SU(3) Lecture 10 Appendix (11/23/11) Hadron Masses Lecture 11 (11/28/11) Excitations and Regge Behavior Lecture 12 (11/28/11,11/30/11,12/2/11) Even Heavier Quarks (SU(4) Appendix) Lecture 14 (12/7/11) Local Gauge Symmetries and Gauge Bosons II - QED, SU(2) and QCD Lecture 15 (12/9/11) Local Gauge Symmetries and Gauge Bosons III - More Group Theory
Physics 558 lectures Winter 2012
Lecture 16 (1/3/12) Introduction to SuperSymmetry Lecture 16 Appendix (1/3/12) Brief Introduction to SUSY and Fields: The Wess-Zumino Model Lecture 17 () (Re) Introduction to QCD, Feynman rules and renormalized couplings Lecture 17 Appendix A () Comments on propagators Lecture 17 Appendix B () Dimensional Regularization Lecture 18 () QED, Feynman rules and cross sections Lecture 19 () More on Scattering in E&M Lecture 20 () Reintroduction to the effective theory of the weak interactions Lecture 21 () Symmetry Breaking Lecture 22 () Standard Model of Electroweak Interactions (Weinberg-Salam) Lecture 23 () Feynman rules for Electroweak Interactions Lecture 24 () Calculating Electroweak Interactions Lecture 25 () More Comments on the SM of Electroweak Interactions Lecture 26 () Neutrino masses, mixing and oscillations Lecture 27 () The Neutral Kaon System: An Introduction Lecture 28 () The Neutral Kaon System: Technical Details Lecture 28 Appendix () The Box Diagram Lecture 29 () The Neutral Kaon System: Technical Details II (Decays and CP violation) Lecture 30 () The Neutral B System Lecture 31 () The Strong Interactions I: The Quark/Parton Model Lecture 32 () The Strong Interactions II: The QCD Improved Parton Model Lecture 33 () The Strong Interactions III: More on the QCD Improved Parton Model and Perturbative QCD Lecture 34 () The Strong Interactions IV: Even More on the QCD Improved Parton Model and Perturbative QCD
Useful results for units (“natural” particle physics units) and sizes
Various matrices and structure constants for the useful group SU(3)
Notes on Young Diagrams and Representations of SU(N)
Other Web based resources:
The Particle Data Group, of particular interest is the “quick” overview of particle physics, the Particle Adventure, offered by the PDG
Homepage for Fermilab, Fermilab also offers a quick introduction to particle physics
Want an introduction to String Theory? Go to its “official” web site!
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