| Professor Curtright
325 JLK. Office hours 2-3 pm T R, or else by
appointment. |
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| Elementary Particles |
PHY 766 | Section G | M W F 2:30-3:20 | 203 JLK | Prerequisites: PHY 540, 560, 561, 752, 753 or by
permission |
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| The standard model of
elementary particles will be discussed with emphasis on the
Feynman calculus for fields of spin 0, 1/2, and 1. The
standard model Lagrangian will also be presented and some of
its basic properties will be explored. |
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| Grading policy: Your grade will be based on your class participation and on a term paper. The subject of the paper must be approved by Professor Curtright, and a tentative outline of the paper is due by midterm. In addition, you may be asked to present solutions to selected problems in class, as "mini-lectures." | ||||||||
| Assignment
#1:
Read
Griffiths,
Chapters
1
and
2.
Do
exercises
1, 2, and 3, as assigned in class. |
| Assignment #2: Read Griffiths, Chapters 3 and 11. Do exercise 4. |
| Assignment
#3: Solve the problems in Griffiths, Chapter 3. |
| Assignment
#4:
Do
exercises 5, 6, 7, and 8. |
| Assignment #5: Read
Griffiths, Chapter 4. |
| Assignment #6: Do exercises 9, 10, 11, and
12. |
| Assignment #7: Do exercises 13 and 14,
and then read Griffiths, Chapter 5. |
| Assignment #8: Do exercise 15,16, and 17,
and then read Griffiths, Chapter 7, Sections 1, 2, 3, &
4. |
| Assignment #9: Read Griffiths, Chapter 10. (You may also find Ramond's book a useful supplement.) |
| Assignment #10: Take a
look at the Phys. Rev. Letters of Englert and Brout (1964),
Higgs (1964), and Weinberg (1967). |
| Assignment #11: Do exercises 18 and 19,
and then read Griffiths, Chapter 6. |
| Assignment #12: Read again Griffiths, Chapter 7, the entire chapter this time. |
| Assignment #13: Read
Griffiths, Chapter 8. Do exercises 20 - 23. |
| Assignment #14: Read
Griffiths, Chapter 9. Do exercise 24, and
problems 9.5 & 9.29 in Griffiths. |
| Assignment #15: Read Griffiths, Chapter 12. |