| Physics 535 syllabus (update 9/5/05) | |||
| Month | Date | Reading | Problems due (from Particle Physics) |
| Sept | 6 | Ch. 1 | |
| 8 | 1 | ||
| 13 | 1 | Lepton number, Baryon number, Strangeness conservation, Hadron decay modes | |
| 15 | 1 | ||
| 19 | 2 | Antiproton production, Decay momentum, Photon Acceleration, Strong focusing | |
| 23 | 2 | ||
| 27 | 2 | Synchrotron parameters, Proton decay, Synchrotron radiation, Thermal energy | |
| 29 | 2 | ||
| Oct | 4 | 3 | Iron spectrometer, Millicharged Particles , Lead glass shower counter |
| 6 | 3 | ||
| 11 | 3 | Hadron cross sections, Proton form factor, Meson sizes, Muon capture, tau lifetime | |
| 13 | 3 | ||
| 18 | 4 | no problems due | |
| 20 | 4 | Midterm | |
| 25 | 5 | Classical electrodynamics, Scalar electrodynamics Lagrangian, Axion/Higgslet | |
| 27 | 5 | ||
| Nov | 1 | 5 | Scalar annihilation, Scalar Bhabha scattering |
| 3 | 5 | ||
| 8 | 6 | Pauli matrices, Dirac Lagrangian, Pauli equation, Current conservation | |
| 10 | 6 | ||
| 15 | 7 | Annihilation of fermions to bosons | |
| 17 | 7 | ||
| 22 | 7 | SU(3) vector representation, Gluon field strengths, Three gluon charge conservation, Gluonic radiative decays | |
| 24 | Thanksgiving | ||
| 29 | 8 | Muon collider, Invisible Z decay, Spectator model for charmed hadron decays, W to cb | |
| Dec | 1 | 8 | |
| 6 | 8 | Protonium decays to pions, Protonium decays to kaons, CP conservation, Double Dalitz Pion decay | |
| 8 | 8 | ||
| 30 | 9 | Oddballs, Neutral pion mass measurement, Color hyperfine interaction splittings | |
| 15 | 9 | ||
| 17 | 9 |