| Note
Link |
Note
Subject |
Textbook
Sections (Martin & Shaw) |
| Introduction |
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| Note 01 |
Natural Units. Standard Model Summary | 1.1, 1.5; Appendix E |
| Note 02 | Relativistic Kinematics (1) |
Appendix A |
| Note 03 | Relativistic Kinematics (2) | Appendix A |
| Note 04 | Quantum Mechanics |
(none) |
| Note 05 | Main experimental observables:
cross section and decays (lifetime, width, branching ratio) |
Appendix B (B1-B3) |
| Note 06 | Theorist talking: cross sections (matrix element, phase space) | 1.3, 1.4; Appendix B (B4-B5) |
| Note 07 | Theorist talking: decays and
resonances |
1.3, 1.4; Appendix B (B4-B5) |
| Note 08 | Theorist talking: exchange with particles and Feynman diagrams | 1.3, 1.4; Appendix B (B4-B5) |
| Experimental
techniques |
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| Note 09 | Sources of high energy particles |
3.1 |
| Note 10 |
Interactions of particles with
matter |
3.2 |
| Note 11 | Detectors |
3.3 |
| Note 12 |
Examples of contemporary
experiments |
3.4 |
| Note 13 |
Experimentalist basics: signal/background, trigger and cuts, statistical and systematic errors | (none) |
| Discovery of
constituents of matter |
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| Note 14 | Where it all began: discovery of
e, p, n, γ. |
(none) |
| Note 15 | Relativistic Quantum Mechanics.
Antimatter. Discovery of positron, anti-proton. |
1.2 |
| Note 16 | Search for Yukawa particle.
Discovery of muon, pion, neutral pion. |
1.4; 2.2.3 |
| Note 17 | Neutrino: hypothesis, discovery.
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2.1 |
| Note 18 | Antineutrino. Lepton numbers.
Muon neutrino. Tau-lepton and tau-neutrino. Lepton universality. |
2.1 |
| Note 19 | Strange particles. Resonances. |
2.2, 5 and 6 |
| Note 20 |
Three quarks. Three colors. Are
the quarks real? |
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| Note 21 | More quarks: c, b, t. Are there
more generations? |
3.4.1, 6.1 |
| Three
forces in the Standard Model |
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| Note 22 |
Brief Review of the Three Forces
in the Standard Model |
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| Note 22 | Local Gauge Invariance U(1) and
QED: charge,
photons, loops, renormalization, running α, g-2 |
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| Note 23 |
Local Gauge Invariance SU(3) and
QCD: color charges,
gluons, running αs (confinement and asymptotic freedom),
"seeing" gluons |
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| Note 24 |
Weak force: P-violation in
β-decays. Left/right fermions. |
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| Note 25 |
Local Gauge Invariance SU(2)L.
ElectroWeak "unification". Discovery of W and Z bosons. |
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| Note 26 |
Weak force: K-oscillations. KL and KS. CP-violation. | |
| Note 27 |
Weak force: quark mixing
(cross-generation decays of quarks, meson oscillations, CP-violation). |
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| Note 29 |
Weak force: neutrino masses and
oscillations. |
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| Note 30 |
Problem of masses. Higgs
mechanism. |
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| Note 31 | Where is the Higgs boson? |
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| Beyond the Standard Model | ||
| Note 32 |
GUT, proton decay, leptoquark
searches, monopole searches. |
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| Note 33 |
SUSY, search for SUSY particles,
WIMPs |
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| Note 34 |
Strings. Extra dimensions. Micro
black holes. |
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