Particle Physics

Graduate Course, PhD Program

Spring 2011, University of Ioannina

Prof. Costas Foudas,

e-mail: Costas.Fountas@cern.ch

Office hours: Please make appointment via e-mail

Lecture1:   Introduction

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Lecture2:   Relativity - Covariant Notation

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Lecture3:   Relativistic Kinematics

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Lecture4:   Energy Loss Suffered by Particles Through Matter

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Reading Assignment:   Perkins 4^th edition p343-344; p349-376

Extra Exercises: Perkins has a series of very good exercises in this chapter.

Lecture5:   Klein Gordon and Dirac Equations

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Reading Assignment:   Chapter 3, Chapter 5 from Halzen and Martin

Reading Assignment: Griffiths Chapter 7

Lecture6:   Solutions of the Dirac Equation

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Reading Assignment:   Chapter 5 from Halzen and Martin

Reading Assignment: Griffiths Chapter 7

Lecture7:  Lorentz and parity Invariance of the Dirac Equation

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Reading Assignment: Griffiths Chapter 7 p222-225

Reading Assignment: Griffiths p122 - 128

Lecture8: Early Experimental Evidence for Particle Intrinsic Parity

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Lecture9: Helicity and Chirality and the Grodzins-Goldhaber-Sunyar Experiment

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Reading Assignment: Halzen and Martin p114 - p116; p126 - p128

Reading Assignment: Griffiths p330 – p 334

Lecture10: Anti-Particles and  Charge Conjugation

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Reading Assignment: Halzen and Martin p107 – p110

Reading Assignment: Griffiths p128-p130

Reading Assignment: Halzen and Martin: Chapter 3 p75 – p78

Reading Assignment: Halzen and Martin: Chapter 5 (negative energy solutions)

Reading Assignment: Griffiths Chapter 7

Lecture11: Time Reversal and the CPT Theorem

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Reading Assignment: Griffiths p134-p135

Lecture12: Lagrangians and Symmetries

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Reading Assignment: Halzen and Martin: p311 – p317

Lecture13: QED-Lagrangian

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Reading Assignment: Halzen and Martin: p311 – p317

Lecture14: Measurable-Rates

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Reading Assignment: Halzen and Martin: p78 – p94

Lecture15: Weak Interactions

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Reading Assignment: Perkins Chapter 7, p194-p213

Reading Assignment: Halzen and Martin Chapter 12, p251-p267

Spontaneously Broken Symmetry – Higgs Mechanism

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Reading Assignment: Halzen and Martin Chapter 14, p321-p330; p338-p341