Outline - subject to change
Grade = Homework 33% + Mid-term 27% + Term paper & Participation 40%
Changes from your imput possible: becker@mit.edu
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TOPIC |
READING |
| Sep |
10 |
1. Overview: particles, forces, Standard Model |
HM ch 1, skim ch 2 |
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15 |
2. Concepts/Language: Fields, Feynman, units |
PS, ch 1, 2 |
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17 h1 |
3. Basics: cross sections, kinematics, colliders, statistics |
HM ch 4, PDG ch40 |
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22 |
4. Detectors, some applications in key Experiments |
notes |
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24 h2 |
5. e+e- physics, QED, photoproduction |
HM ch 3, 4 |
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29 |
6. Weak interactions, the W discovery |
HM ch 12 |
| Oct |
01 h3 |
7. Weak interactions; case study of the W experiment |
notes |
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6 |
8. decays,µ,n,π,K,D,B,.. measurements, quark mixing |
HM ch 12 |
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8 h4 |
9. CKM matrix, meaning, CP phase: |
AB ch 7 |
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15 |
10. Electroweak reactions, LEP, SLD, measurements |
HM ch 11 |
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20 h5 |
11. Review |
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22 |
12. Mid-term Quiz |
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27 h6 |
13. EW Feynman rules |
HM ch 13 |
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29 |
14. Precision EW: Z Physics |
PDG ch 11, 13, notes |
| Nov |
3
h7 |
15. WW production, tests of EW, Higgs 1 |
PDG, notes |
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5 |
16. QCD1 color, scaling violations, quark/hadron model |
HM ch 9,
BP ch 6, 9 |
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10 h8 |
17. QCD2 jets, Gluon in 3jets, α runs, pentaquarks? |
HM ch 10
BP again |
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12 |
18. Put SM together, EW sym. breaking, Higgs, experiments |
HM ch 15 |
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17 h9 |
19. FNAL & Top & Higgs - future at LHC |
notes CERN school |
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20. ATLAS/CMS |
Dr. F. Taylor |
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24 h10 |
21. K-K …..B-B oscillations, CP violation |
AB ch 8 |
| Dec |
1 |
22. neutrino experiments, a bit astrophysics |
DP skim ch 1-5 |
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3
TP |
23. Future outlook, Hierarchy, dimensions |
design note ILC, CLICK |
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8 |
24. Presentation of term papers |
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9 |
25. continued presentation of term papers |
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| h1 = homework 1 out; due at h2 |
AB = A. Belletini Intro to Elementary Particle Physics |
| HM = Halzen, Martin Quarks & Leptons |
BP = Barger Phillips Collider Physics |
| PS = Peskin Schroeder Intro to Quantum Field Theory |
PDG = Particle Data Group |
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