PHZ 4390 - Introduction to Particle Physics - Fall 2019


Textbook Reading and Lecture Schedule

This calendar shows what sections in the Bettini textbook should be read and what lecture note files also should be read before attending class on the day listed. Optional lectures are denoted with an asterix (*). Homework due dates and exam dates are also indicated.

 

Date Day HW / Exams Textbook Reading Lectures
8/19/19 Mon
8/20/19 Tue
8/21/19 Wed 1.8, 1.9 Course overview, Particle physics intro
8/22/19 Thu
8/23/19 Fri Relativity review
8/24/19 Sat      
8/25/19 Sun      
8/26/19 Mon 1.1 Relativity review
8/27/19 Tue
8/28/19 Wed 1.2 Relativity: 4 vectors
8/29/19 Thu
8/30/19 Fri 1.3-1.5 Relativity: kinematics
8/31/19 Sat      
9/1/19 Sun      
9/2/19 Mon Labor Day    
9/3/19 Tue
9/4/19 Wed HW1 due Modern physics: uncertainty principle, x-ray diffraction*
9/5/19 Thu
9/6/19 Fri Modern physics: QM review
9/7/19 Sat      
9/8/19 Sun      
9/9/19 Mon 1.6 Decays and Scattering 
9/10/19 Tue
9/11/19 Wed Bonus HW1 due 1.7 Scattering
9/12/19 Thu
9/13/19 Fri HW2 due 1.7 Scattering
9/14/19 Sat      
9/15/19 Sun      
9/16/19 Mon
1.10 Interactions of Particles
9/17/19 Tue
9/18/19 Wed 1.10 Interactions of Particles
9/19/19 Thu
9/20/19 Fri Radioactivity and Radiation
9/21/19 Sat      
9/22/19 Sun      
9/23/19 Mon HW3 due
 Review activity
9/24/19 Tue
9/25/19 Wed Bonus HW2 due, Exam 1 in class
9/26/19 Thu
9/27/19 Fri 1.11 Accelerators and Colliders
9/28/19 Sat      
9/29/19 Sun      
9/30/19 Mon
1.12 Detectors
10/1/19 Tue
10/2/19 Wed 1.12 Detectors
10/3/19 Thu
10/4/19 Fri Homecoming
10/5/19 Sat      
10/6/19 Sun      
10/7/19 Mon 9.6, 9.14 Experiments
10/8/19 Tue
10/9/19 Wed HW4 due 2.1-2.4 Leptons and Neutrinos
10/10/19 Thu
10/11/19 Fri 2.5-2.7 Relativistic QM
10/12/19 Sat      
10/13/19 Sun      
10/14/19 Mon 5.5 Interactions and Feynman Diagrams
10/15/19 Tue
10/16/19 Wed 3.1-3.6 Conservation Laws
10/17/19 Thu
10/19/19 Fri 3.7-3.11 Conservation Laws
10/19/19 Sat      
10/20/19 Sun      
10/21/19 Mon HW5 due 4.6-4.10 Quark Model, Heavy quarks
10/22/19 Tue
10/23/19 Wed Bonus HW4 due 4.6-4.10 Quark Model, Heavy quarks
10/24/19 Thu
10/25/19 Fri 6.2 Hadron structure
10/26/19 Sat      
10/27/19 Sun      
10/28/19 Mon Paper proposal due, HW6 due 6.2 Hadron structure
10/29/19 Tue
10/30/19 Wed 6.1 QCD
10/31/19 Thu
11/1/19 Fri 6.5 QCD
11/2/19 Sat      
11/3/19 Sun      
11/4/19 Mon   Review activity
11/5/19 Tue
11/6/19 Wed Exam 2 in class
11/7/19 Thu
11/8/19 Fri 7.9, 7.10 Electroweak
11/9/19 Sat      
11/10/19 Sun      
11/11/19 Mon Veterans Day
11/12/19 Tue
11/13/19 Wed HW7 due 9.12, 9.15 The Higgs boson (video lecture)
11/14/19 Thu
11/15/19 Fri 10.1, 10.2 Neutrino Mixing
11/16/19 Sat      
11/17/19 Sun      
11/19/19 Mon epilogue Beyond SM
11/19/19 Tue
11/20/19 Wed Presentations    
11/21/19 Thu      
11/22/19 Fri Presentations    
11/23/19 Sat      
11/24/19 Sun      
11/25/19 Mon Presentations, 
HW8 due
11/26/19 Tue
11/27/19 Wed Thanksgiving
11/28/19 Thu
11/29/19 Fri Thanksgiving
11/30/19 Sat      
12/1/19 Sun      
12/2/19 Mon Presentations
12/3/19 Tue
12/4/19 Wed Presentations End of class
12/5/19 Thu
12/6/19 Fri
12/7/19 Sat
12/8/19 Sun
12/9/19 Mon