Particle Physics Course            

 

Dr. Costas Foudas    Spring 2007 – Imperial

e-mail: c.foudas@imperial.ac.uk

Office hours:  Mondays:     16:00-17:00, Room 508 Blackett

                     Thursdays:    16:00-17:00, Room 508 Blackett

 

Problem Solving (Rapid Feedback):  Kostas Petridis

 

Course Description

 

Course News:

n      Solutions for HW 7, 8, 9  are on the Web and the UG office (15/5/07) .

n      There are multiple copies of the course materials in my office from students who did

      not come to classes to collect them. Please stop by from my office to collect them and

          avoid extra costs of printing them.

n      More solved problems and last year’s exam at the end of this page…

Lecture1:   Introduction

Homework-Assignement1 ;  Solutions-Homework-Assignment-1

Reading Assignment:  

 


Lecture2:   Relativity - Covariant Notation   

Homework-Assignement2 ;   Solutions-Homework-Assignment-2

Reading Assignment:   Chapter 3 from Griffiths                    

 


Lecture3:   Relativistic Kinematics

Homework-Assignement3 ;   Solutions-Homework-Assignment-3

Reading Assignment:   Chapter 3 on Relativistic Kinematics from Griffiths

 


Lecture4:   Energy Loss Suffered by Particles Through Matter   

Homework-Assignement4 ;   Solutions-Homework-Assignment-4

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

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

 


Lecture5:   Klein Gordon and Dirac Equations   

Homework-Assignement5 ;   Solutions-Homework-Assignment-5

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

 


Lecture6:   Solutions of the Dirac Equation   

Homework-Assignment6 ;   Solutions-Homework-Assignment-6

Reading Assignment:   Chapter 5 from Halzen and Martin

Reading Assignment: Griffiths Chapter 7

 


Lecture7:  Lorentz and parity Invariance of the Dirac Equation   

Homework-Assignment7;  Solutions for Homework-Assignement7 

Reading  Assignment: Griffiths Chapter 7 p222-225

Reading Assignment: Griffiths p122 - 128

 


Lecture8: Early Experimental Evidence for Particle Intrinsic Parity   

Homework-Assignment8;  Solutions-Homework-Assignment-8

 


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

Homework-Assignment9;     Solutions-Homework-Assignment-9

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

Reading Assignment: Griffiths p330 – p 334

 


Lecture10: Anti-Particles and  Charge Conjugation   

Use class notes +

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 

Use class notes +

Reading Assignment:  Griffiths p134-p135

 


Lecture12: Lagrangians and Symmetries   

Use class notes +

Reading  Assignment: Halzen and Martin: p311 – p317

 


Lecture13: QED-Lagrangian   

Use class notes +

Reading  Assignment: Halzen and Martin: p311 – p317

 


Lecture14: Measurable-Rates   

Use class notes +

Reading  Assignment: Halzen and Martin: p78 – p94

 


Lecture15: Weak Interactions 

Use class notes +

Reading  Assignment: Perkins Chapter 7, p194-p213

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

 


Spontaneously Broken Symmetry – Higgs Mechanism

Use class notes +

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

 

 

Assorted sets of solved problems:

 

More Homework Assignments and Solutions Can be found here

 

Particle  Physics Exam 2006  ; Particle Physics Exam 2006:  Answers

 

 

Particle Physics Exam 2007  ; Particle Physics Exam 20067:  Answers