Survey of Elementary Particle Physics
Winter 2007

Preliminary Schedule

Please note - this schedule will probably be revised from time to time.  You are advised to check this page weekly. Make a bookmark!
 

 

Week

 

Subject Matter

Reading
(Griffiths)

1

1/1

Bound States

Chapter 5

2

1/8

Quark Model for Hadrons

Chapter 5

3

1/15

Cross Sections and Lifetimes

Feynman Rules (I)

Chapter 6

4

1/22

Dirac Equation

Quantum Electrodynamics

Chapter 6

5

1/29

  QED for Quarks and Hadrons

Midterm Exam #1 on 2/1

Chapter 7

6

2/5

QED for Quarks and Hadrons 

Chapter 8

7

2/12

QCD

Chapter 9

8

2/19

Weak Interactions

Chapter 10

9

2/26

Neutrinos (TBD)

Notes

10

3/5

Gauge Theories, Spontaneous symmetry breaking
and Higgs Mechanism   (TBD)

Chapter 11

and Notes

11

3/12

Exam week