| PHZ 5354 LECTURES | Textbook chapters (Martin&Shaw) | Textbook chapters (Perkins) | ||||
| Introduction | ||||||
| Lecture | 1 | 1 | Units. Standard Model. Timeline of 20th century. Questions within and beyond SM. | 1.1.0 | 1.2.1,1.2.3 | |
| Lecture | 2 | 2 | Where it all began: discovery of e, p, n, photon. | |||
| Main theoretical concepts | ||||||
| Lecture | 3 | 3 | Relativistic kinematics. | Appendix A | 1.1.3 | |
| Lecture | 4 | 4 | Quantum Mechanics. | 1.3, 1.5 | ||
| Lecture | 5 | 5 | Perturbation theory. Matrix element. Phase space. Cross section. Lifetime. Breit-Weigner formula. | Appendix B | 2.10, 2.11 | |
| Lecture | 6 | 6 | Relativistic Quantum Mechanics. Antimatter. Discovery of positron, anti-proton. | 1.2.0-2 | 1.4 | |
| Lecture | 7 | 7 | Forces via particle exchange. EM force and photons. Feynman diagrams. Four fundamental forces. | 1.1.0, 1.3.1-3, 2.2.0 | 1.2.2, 2.4-2.9 | |
| Experimental techniques | ||||||
| Lecture | 17 | 8 | Cosmic Rays. First accelerators: Cockcroft+Walton, Van de Graff, cyclotrons, synchrotrons. | 3.1.0-1 | 11.1.* | |
| Lecture | 18 | 9 | New wave of accelerators: strong focusing, electron and hadron colliders, summary. | 3.1.2-3 | 11.2 | |
| Lecture | 19 | 10 | Interaction of particles with matter: charged particles (dE/dx, scintillation, Cherenkov, transition radiation) | 3.2.0, 3.2.2, 3.3.4 | 11.5.1-4 | |
| Lecture | 20 | 11 | Interaction of particles with matter: hadron showers, EM showers, photon interactions | 3.2.0-1, 3.2.3-4, 3.3.5 | ||
| Lecture | 21 | 12 | Detectors: tracking; particle momentum; fast response (timing) | 1.2.2, 3.3.0-3 | 11.6 | |
| Lecture | 22 | 13 | Detectors: energy; particle identification techniques | 3.3.0, 3.3.4-5 | 11.7 | |
| Lecture | 23 | 14 | Two examples of contemporary experiments: CDF, CMS | 3.4.2 | ||
| Lecture | 24 | 15 | Experimentalist basics: signal/background, trigger and cuts, statistical and systematic errors | |||
| Discovery of constituents of matter and fundamental forces | ||||||
| Lecture | 8 | 16 | Search for Yukawa particle. Discovery of muon, pion, neutral pion. | 1.4.1-3, 2.1.2 | 2.2,2.3 | |
| Lecture | 9 | 17 | Neutrino: hypothesis, discovery. Antineutrino. Lepton numbers. | 2.1.1 | ||
| Lecture | 10 | 18 | Muon neutrino. Tau-lepton. Tau-lepton neutrino. Lepton universality. | 2.1.2-3 | 7.2 | |
| Lecture | 11 | 19 | Strange particles. Resonances. | 2.2.2, 2.2.4, 5.3.* | 2.11 | |
| Lecture | 12 | 20 | Sakata model. 8-fold way. Three quarks. Three colors. | 2.2.6, 6.3.0 | 4.4, 6.1 | |
| Lecture | 13 | 21 | Are the quarks real? | 2.2.0-1 | 4.8 | |
| Lecture | 22 | Visionaries: "discovery" of QED, QCD, ElectroWeak theories; more quarks? Discovery of g, W, Z. | 9.1.* | 7.11, 7.12, 7.13, 8.3 | ||
| Lecture | 14 | 23 | More quarks: c, b, t. Are there more generations? | 2.2.4, 6.1.2, 8.3.* | 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.13 | |
| Role of symmetries | ||||||
| Lecture | 15 | 24 | Symmetries, conservation laws and quantum numbers: dt, dx, dphi; P, C, T, CPT, q, B, L, I. | 2.2.2, 4.*, 5.1.0-5.2.4, App. D | 3.* | |
| Lecture | 16 | 25 | Symmetries, cont'd | same | same | |
| Three forces in the Standard Model | ||||||
| Lecture | 25 | 26 | Electromagnetic force: charge, photons, loops, renormalization, running alpha, g-2 | 2.6, 6.5 (+ 5.*) | ||
| Lecture | 26 | 27 | Strong force: color charges, gluons, "seeing" gluons, color abacus | 6.3.*, 7.1.0 | 6.1, 6.4 | |
| Lecture | 27 | 28 | Strong force: running alpha_s, V(r) at large distances, confinement, non-perturbative QCD | 6.1.3, 6.3.1, 7.1.1 (+7.2.*-7.4.*) | 6.3, 6.5 | |
| Lecture | 28 | 29 | Strong force: V(r) at small distances and asymptotic freedom | 6.1.3-7.1.2 | 6.2 | |
| Lecture | 29 | 30 | Strong force: Quark-Gluon Plasma | 6.7 | ||
| Lecture | 30 | 31 | Weak force: CC, P-violation (K- and beta-decays). K0-anti-K0 mixing. Strangeness oscillations. Ks regeneration. | 8.2.*, 10.1.*, 10.2.*, 10.2.4-5 | 7.5, 7.15 | |
| Lecture | 31 | 32 | Weak force: discovery of CP-violation, indirect and direct CP-violation, evidence for indirect CP-violation. | 10.2.3 | 7.16, 7.17 | |
| Lecture | 32 | 33 | Weak force: quark mixing (GIM, CKM), K-, D-, B-, Bs-oscillations. | 8.3.1 | 7.14, 7.18 | |
| Lecture | 33 | 34 | Weak force: CKM parameters and CP violation. Role of B-mesons. B-factories. CP-violation in B-mesons. | 7.18 | ||
| Lecture | #REF! | 35 | Electro-Weak unification: Gauge invariance principle. Problem of masses. Higgs mechanism. | 9.2.*, Appendix C | 8.12 | |
| Lecture | #REF! | 36 | Electro-Weak unification: where is the Higgs boson? | 9.2.3 | 8.13 | |
| Neutrino revised | ||||||
| Lecture | #REF! | 37 | Dirac or Majorana? Mass? Lepton sector mixing and neutrino oscillations? | 11.1.* | 9.6, 9.7 | |
| Lecture | #REF! | 38 | Experimental evidence for neutrino oscillations and implications. | |||
| Beyond the Standard Model | ||||||
| Lecture | #REF! | 39 | GUT, proton decay, leptoquark searches, monopole searches. | 11.2.* | 9.2, 9.8 | |
| Lecture | #REF! | 40 | SUSY, search for SUSY particles, WIMPs | 11.3.* | 9.1, 9.4 | |
| Lecture | #REF! | 41 | Strings. Extra dimensions. Micro black holes. | 9.9 | ||
| Experimental cosmology | ||||||
| Lecture | 42 | 42 | Cosmological constant, dark matter and dark energy, ultra high energy cosmic rays, gravitational waves, etc. | 11.4.* | 10.7 | |