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PHYSICS 557-8 - Particle Physics Autumn 2011, Winter 2012
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: Thurs 2:30 - 4 PM
TA: Scott Davis Office: B210 Email: scdavis@u.washington.edu
To send email to everyone in the class use - phys558a_wi12@u.washington.edu
LHC Results Forum—next up 2/2/12 at 2 PM (PST) covering the ATLAS search for “vector-like” quarks The ATLAS paper is here, the EVO connection (LHC Results Forum, pwd “lhc-forum”) is here
The latest results from the LHC can be found here — http://cern.ch/lpcc
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. The subsequent quarters are increasingly more focused and require a slightly higher level of technical expertise. However, it is still 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. Scores and grades will be posted on Catalyst. 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.
Physics 558 lectures Winter 2012, UW Holidays — Monday, 1/16/12, Monday, 2/20/12
Lecture 16 (1/3/12, 1/5/12,1/9/12) Introduction to SuperSymmetry Lecture 16 Appendix (1/9/12) Brief Introduction to SUSY and Fields: The Wess-Zumino Model Lecture 17 (1/11/12,1/13/12,1/23/12) (Re) Introduction to QCD, Feynman rules and renormalized couplings Lecture 17 Appendix A (1/13/12) Comments on propagators Lecture 17 Appendix B (1/23/12) Dimensional Regularization Lecture 18 (1/25/12) QED, Feynman rules and cross sections Lecture 19 (1/27/12) More on Scattering in E&M Lecture 19 Appendix A (1/27/12) Summary of Scattering Cross sections Lecture 20 (1/30/12) Reintroduction to the effective theory of the weak interactions Lecture 21 (2/1/12) Symmetry Breaking Lecture 22 (2/3/12) Standard Model of Electroweak Interactions (Weinberg-Salam) Lecture 23 (2/3/12, 2/6/12) Feynman rules for Electroweak Interactions Lecture 24 (2/6/12) Calculating Electroweak Interactions Lecture 25 (2/8/12) More Comments on the SM of Electroweak Interactions Lecture 26 (2/10/12, 2/13/12) Neutrino masses, mixing and oscillations Lecture 27 (2/15/12, 2/17/12) The Neutral Kaon System: An Introduction Lecture 28 (2/17/12, 2/22/12) The Neutral Kaon System: Technical Details Lecture 28 Appendix A (2/22/12) Details of Box Diagram calculation Lecture 29 (2/24/12) The Neutral Kaon System: Technical Details II (Decays and CP violation) Lecture 30 (2/27/12, 2/29/12) The Neutral B System Lecture 31 (2/29/12) The Strong Interactions I: The Quark/Parton Model Lecture 32 (3/2/12) The Strong Interactions II: The QCD Improved Parton Model Lecture 33 (3/5/12) The Strong Interactions III: More on the QCD Improved Parton Model and Perturbative QCD Lecture 34 (3/7/12) The Strong Interactions IV: Even More on the QCD Improved Parton Model and Perturbative QCD
HW 558 - Assignments and solutions available to enrolled students here
HW I (1/13/12) HW II (1/23/12) HW III (1/27/12) HW IV (2/3/12) HW V (2/10/12) HW VI (2/17/12) HW VII (2/24/12) HW VIII (Due 3/2/12) HW IX (Due 3/9/12)
Physics 557 Lectures Autumn 2011, UW Holidays—Friday 11/11/11, Friday 11/25/11
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
HW - 557
HW I (10/7/11) HW II (10/14/11) HW III (10/21/11) HW V (11/4/11) HW VI (11/14/11) HW VII (11/18/11) HW VIII (11/28/11) HW X (12/9/11)
Lectures from the last time I taught 558-9
Physics 558 Winter 2003 Lecture 1 (1/6/03) Local Gauge Symmetries and Gauge Bosons – A (Quick) Review and some Group Theory Lecture 2 (1/10/03 and 1/13/03) Introduction to SuperSymmetry Lecture 2 Appendix (1/15/03) Brief Introduction to SUSY and Fields: The Wess-Zumino Model Lecture 3 (1/17/03, 1/22/03 and 1/24/03) (Re) Introduction to QCD, Feynman rules and renormalized couplings Lecture 3 Appendix 1 (1/22/03) Comments on propagators Lecture 3 Appendix 2 (1/24/03) Dimensional Regularization Lecture 4 (1/24/03) QED, Feynman rules and cross sections Lecture 5 (1/27/03) More on Scattering in E&M Lecture 6 (1/29/03) Reintroduction to the effective theory of the weak interactions Lecture 7 (1/31/03, 2/3/03 and 2/5/03) Symmetry Breaking Lecture 8 (2/7/03) Standard Model of Electroweak Interactions (Weinberg-Salam) Lecture 9 (2/10/02) Feynman rules for Electroweak Interactions Lecture 10 (2/12/03) Calculating Electroweak Interactions Lecture 11 (2/14/03 and 2/19/03) More Comments on the SM of Electroweak Interactions Lecture 12 (2/19/03, 2/24/03 and 2/26/03) Neutrino masses, mixing and oscillations Lecture 13 (2/28/03, 3/3/03 and 3/5/03) The Neutral Kaon System: An Introduction Lecture 14 (3/7/03 and 3/10/03) The Neutral Kaon System: Technical Details Lecture 15 (3/10/03 and 3/12/03) The Neutral Kaon System: Technical Details II (Decays and CP violation) Lecture 16 (3/14/03) The Neutral B System
Physics 559 Spring 2003 Lecture 1 (3/31/03, 4/2/03, 4/4/03 and 4/7/03) The Strong Interactions I: The Quark/Parton Model (PDF version) Lecture 2 (4/7/03, 4/9/03 and 4/11/03) The Strong Interactions II: The QCD Improved Parton Model (in PDF) Lecture 3 (4/14/03, 4/16/03 and 4/18/03) The Strong Interactions III: More on the QCD Improved Parton Model and Perturbative QCD Lecture 4 (4/21/03, 4/23/03, 4/25/03 and 4/30/03) The Strong Interactions IV: Even More on the QCD Improved Parton Model and Perturbative QCD Lecture 5 (5/2/03 and 6/2/03)) The Strong Interactions V: Final Discussion of the QCD Improved Parton Model and Perturbative QCD Lecture 6 (6/2/03, 6/4/03 and 6/6/03) Some Final Comments on QCD: Nonperturbative Structure and the Vacuum
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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