Particle Physics Course 
Dr. Costas
Foudas Spring 2007 Imperial
e-mail: c.foudas@imperial.ac.uk
Office
hours: Mondays:
Thursdays:
Problem
Solving (Rapid Feedback): Kostas
Petridis
Course News:
n Solutions for
HW 7, 8, 9 are on the Web and the UG
office (
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 years exam at
the end of this page
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
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:
Lecture7: Lorentz and parity Invariance of the Dirac
Equation
Homework-Assignment7; Solutions
for Homework-Assignement7
Reading Assignment:
Reading
Assignment:
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:
Lecture10: Anti-Particles and Charge Conjugation
Use class notes +
Reading Assignment: Halzen and Martin p107 p110
Reading
Assignment:
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:
Lecture12:
Lagrangians and Symmetries
Use class notes +
Reading Assignment: Halzen and Martin: p311 p317
Use class notes +
Reading Assignment: Halzen and Martin: p311 p317
Use class notes +
Reading Assignment: Halzen and Martin: p78 p94
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