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