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Class Diary for fall 2017
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Date
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Notes
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| Aug. 21 |
Introduction |
| Aug. 23 |
MS Ch.1.1-1.2,
spin, Weyl's equations, antiparticles, helicity
discovery of "positive electron" ||
further reading |
| Aug. 25 |
MS Ch.1.3-1.5, |
| Aug. 28 |
MS Ch.2.1-2.2, leptons, lepton universality, neutrinos and their detection, |
| Aug. 30 |
(quiz is possible) MS Ch.2.3,
Solar neutrinos, solar neutrino experiments |
| Sep. 1 |
HW1, neutrino masses and mixing, PMNS matrix |
| Sep. 4 |
no class, Labor day |
| Sep. 6 |
neutrino oscillation experiments, SNO, atmospheric and beam experiments |
| Sep. 8 |
Hurricane Irma, no class |
| Sep. 11 |
Hurricane Irma, no class |
| Sep. 13 |
Hurricane Irma, no class |
| Sep. 15 |
HW1 due, Quioz 2, Nuclear reactor neutrino experiments,
measurement of PMNS matrix,
neutrino mass hierarchy |
| Sep. 18 |
MS Chapter 3: Quarks and hadrons, simple quark model |
| Sep. 20 |
MS Chapter 3: observed particles, s,c,b quarks, resonances |
| Sep. 22 |
symmetries, conservation laws, parity, charge conjugation |
| Sep. 25 |
HW2, quark model: isospin symmetry, u,d mass splitting |
| Sep. 27 |
Light mesons and barions, magnetic moments, hadron mass splitting
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| Sep. 29 |
Light hadrons, magnetic moments, hadron mass splitting |
| Oct. 2 |
Color, color symmetry |
| Oct. 4 |
MS Ch.7, QCD, jets and gluons, asimptotic freedom |
| Oct. 6 |
no class, UF homecoming |
| Oct. 9 |
HW2 due. Jets, e+e- colliders, total x-section (R). MS Ch.8: Quarks and partons: elastic scattering |
| Oct. 11 |
Midterm Exam |
| Oct. 13 |
MS Ch.8:Inelastic scattering, Bjorken scaling, the parton model, sructure functions |
Oct. 16 |
DIS handout,
MS Ch.8: valence and sea quarks, inelatic neutrino scattering, proton-proton collisions, LHC, current and constituent quarks |
| Oct. 18 |
MS 9, Weak interactions, Lepton-quark symmetry and mixing, Cabibbo angle |
| Oct. 20 |
b-quark, t-quark, CKM matrix, top decays |
| Oct. 23 |
CDF experiment, top, b-tagging |
| Oct. 25 |
HW3. MS Chapter 10: Electroweak unification |
| Oct. 27 |
SLC and LEP,electroweak reactions, number of neutrinos. |
| Oct. 30 |
Gauge invariance, color (SU(3)) and flavor (SU(2) symmetry |
| Nov. 1 |
Higgs handout,
Symmetry breaking |
| Nov. 3 |
EW unification,
Particle masses and Higgs field |
| Nov. 6 |
Instructor Prof. Mitselmakher:
CMS-Atlas handout,
LHC experiments: CMS, Atlas, main results, current status and plans |
| Nov. 8 |
Parity, and charge conjugation violations, Wu experiment |
| Nov. 10 |
no class, Veterans day |
| Nov. 13 |
CPviolation handout,
HW3 due, Lederman (C-violation) and Goldhaber (helicity of neutrino) experiments |
| Nov. 15 |
HW4. CP violation in early universe. Sakharov conditions. The Neutral Kaon system. Kaon decays to pions. |
| Nov. 17 |
Strangeness oscillations. Kaon decays to leptons. CPLEAR experiment. Mass difference of KL and KS. Discovery of CP violation |
| Nov. 20 |
CP violation by mixing and direct. CP violation for B-mesons. B-factories, BaBar and Belle experiments |
| Nov. 22,24 |
no class, Thanksgiving |
| Nov. 27 |
Particle-antiparticle mixing formula. CKM matrix and CP violation in standard model |
| Nov. 29 |
BSM handout 1,
Grand Unification, Georgi-Glashow model. Proton decay. |
| Dec. 1 |
BSM DM handout 2,
Dark Matter experiments, WIMPs, axions. Dirac-Majorana neutrinos, double beta decay. |
| Dec. 4 |
Final Exam (talks), 5:10pm-7:10pm, 1200 |
| Dec. 5 |
Final Exam (talks), 11am-1pm, place TBD |
| Dec. 6 |
no class, SK out of town |
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