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Particle Physics 1
15-030-842
Spring Quarter, 2001

Michael D. Sokoloff


Best-Guess Schedule

This is my best-guess schedule as of May 5, 2001. It is subject to change, and all students are responsible for changes announced in class.
 

 
class  date subject
March 27 Review of Classical Mechanics 
March 29 Review of Classical Electro-Dynamics 
April 3 Lagrangian Electro-Dynamics;
The Real Scalar Field 
April 5 The Complex Scalar Field;
Global Gauge Invariance  
April 10 Gauge Invariance in Quantum Mechanics;
The Covariant Derivative  
April 12 Non-Abelian Gauge Theories;
Strong Isospin  
April 17 The Dirac Equation
April 19 The Lagrangian of the Standard Model 
April 24 The Electroweak Theory  
10  April 26 The QCD Lagrangian  
11  May 1 The Higgs Mechanism, part I 
(Aziz Majidi, Guest Lecturer)
12  May 3 Neutrino Oscillations and Masses
(Randy Johnson, Guest Lecturer)  
13  May 8 The Higgs Mechanism, part II  
(Reza Jamei, Guest Lecturer)  
14 May 10 Cross-Sections and Decay Rates, part I 
(Dickson Goulart, Guest Lecturer)  
15  May 15 Cross-Sections and Decay Rates, part II  
16  May 17 Some Tests of the Standard Model   
17  May 22 Running Coupling Strengths
(Greg Braun, Guest Lecturer)  
18  May 24 Production and Decay of a Higgs Boson  
19  May 29 Grand Unification  
20  May 31 Supersymmetry
(Alex Kagan, Guest Lecturer)  

 last modified May 5, 2001