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8.701 - Introduction to Nuclear & Particle PhysicsFall 2013

Course Administrator: Prof. Frank Wilczek
Lectures: TR 1:30-3:00 in 26-414

lecture notes:

Lecture notes will be posted here throughout the semester.

Supplementary Reading Guide

Topics for Physics 8.701

• History of Particle Physics
  
• Units and Magnitude
  
• Survey of Particles and Conservation Laws
• More PoincareParticle Survey
• Neutron-Antineutron Eigenstates and Time
• Survey of Strong Interactions
• Survey of Electroweak Interactions
• Problems 1 - 2 for Study #1: Feynman Graph Calculations and Deep Inelastic
  Scattering
• Problem 4 - 6 for Study #1: Feynman Graph Calculations and Deep Inelastic
  Scattering
• Additional Reference for Study 1
• Study #2 - Oscillations: K Mesons and Neutrino
• Gauge Structure: Local Constructions and a Look Beyond
• Non-Abelian Construction
• Majorana-ism
• Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: Electroweak
• Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: General
• Higgs Multiplet Potential

• Fermion Masses and Mixings

• Grand Normalization Theorem

• Possible Form of Non-minimal Higgs Couplings

• Study #3 - Higgs Sector Enrichment

• Origins of mass

• Higgs particle
  

• List of Ten

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