| Week 1 |
| Mon, Jan 14 |
Fundamental particles.
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| Required reading: |
Griffiths: Introduction, Chapter 1 |
| Wed, Jan 16 |
Feynman diagrams for the electromagnetic and strong forces.
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| Required reading: |
Griffiths: 2.1-2.3 |
| Supplemental reading: |
Griffiths: 9.1-9.2 |
| Week 2 |
| Mon, Jan 21 |
No Lecture! Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday.
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| Wed, Jan 23 |
Weak force. [Note: The particle data
group's Cabibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa
quark matrix article is available online.]
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| Required reading: |
Griffiths: 2.4 |
| Supplemental reading: |
Particle Data Group on the CKM matrix. |
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Due:
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Homework Set 1. |
| Week 3 |
| Mon, Jan 28 |
Decay rates and cross sections.
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| Required reading: |
Griffiths: 6.1, Das & Ferbel: 1.1-1.4 |
| Supplemental reading: |
Das & Ferbel: 9.6, 12.7 |
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Due:
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Homework Set 2. |
| Wed, Jan 30 |
Symmetries and conservation laws.
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| Required reading: |
Griffiths: 2.5-2.6, 4.6 |
| Supplemental reading: |
Griffiths: 11.3-11.5, Das & Ferbel: 10.4 |
| Week 4 |
| Mon, Feb 04 |
Angular momentum and spin.
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| Required reading: |
Griffiths: 4.1-4.4 |
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Due:
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Homework Set 3. |
| Wed, Feb 06 |
Charge conjugation (C), time inversion (T), CP, and CPT. [Note: The
supplemental reading is about details of the kaon system where CP
plays a central role in our understanding.]
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| Required reading: |
Griffiths: 4.7-4.9, Das & Ferbel: 11.3-11.5 |
| Supplemental reading: |
Das & Ferbel: 12 |
| Week 5 |
| Mon, Feb 11 |
Flavor symmetries, isospin.
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| Required reading: |
Griffiths: 4.5, Das & Ferbel: 9.4.4, 10.5.1 |
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Due:
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Homework Set 4. |
| Wed, Feb 13 |
Mesons. Baryon wave functions. The supplemental reading gives some
background into things we will reference as analogies.
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| Required reading: |
Griffiths: 5.8-5.9 |
| Supplemental reading: |
Griffiths: 5.5-5.7 |
| Week 6 |
| Mon, Feb 18 |
Meson and Baryon masses. Baryon magnetic dipole moments.
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| Required reading: |
Griffiths: 5.10 |
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Due:
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Homework Set 5. |
| Wed, Feb 20 |
Relativistic kinematics.
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| Required reading: |
Griffiths: 3.1-3.3 |
| Week 7 |
| Mon, Feb 25 |
Relativistic collisions.
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| Required reading: |
Griffiths: 3.4-3.5 |
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Due:
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Homework Set 6. |
| Wed, Feb 27 |
Fermi's golden rule. The extra notes
provide an alternate exposition.
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| Required reading: |
Griffiths: 6.2 |
| Supplemental reading: |
Griffiths: 6.1 and appendix A, extra notes |
| Week 8 |
| Mon, Mar 03 |
Review.
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Due:
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Homework Set 7. |
| Wed, Mar 05 |
Exam |
| Exam : |
Midterm Exam.
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| Spring Break! |
| Week 9 |
| Mon, Mar 17 |
Introduction to Nuclear Physics.
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| Required reading: |
Das & Ferbel: Chapter 2 |
| Wed, Mar 19 |
Nuclear models.
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| Required reading: |
Das & Ferbel: Chapter 3 |
| Week 10 |
| Mon, Mar 24 |
Predictions of the Shell Model. Alpha Decays.
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| Required reading: |
Das & Ferbel: 3.4.4-3.6, 4.1-4.3 |
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Due:
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Homework Set 8. |
| Wed, Mar 26 |
Alpha and Gamma Decay.
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| Required reading: |
Das & Ferbel: 4.3, 4.5 |
| Week 11 |
| Mon, Mar 31 |
Beta decay. Nuclear fission.
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| Required reading: |
Das & Ferbel: 4.4, 5.1-5.2 |
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Due:
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Homework Set 9. |
| Wed, Apr 02 |
Fusion and radioactivity.
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| Required reading: |
Das & Ferbel: 5.3-5.4 |
| Week 12 |
| Mon, Apr 07 |
Radioactivity. Propagation of radiation through materials
(beginning, probably talk about charged particles).
The particle data group text is chapter 27. It is
also available
online.
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| Required reading: |
Das & Ferbel: 5.4, 6 |
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Due:
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Homework Set 10. |
| Wed, Apr 09 |
Finish discussion on Propagation of radiation through materials.
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| Required reading: |
Das & Ferbel: 6 |
| Week 13 |
| Mon, Apr 14 |
Detectors.
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| Required reading: |
Das & Ferbel: 7 |
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Due:
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Homework Set 11. |
| Wed, Apr 16 |
Guest Lecturer: Dr. Mike Dragowski.
Ultracold neutrons. Neutron electric dipole moment.
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| Thur, Apr 17 |
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Colloquium:
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4:15-5:15PM. Presentation of recent results
on the neutron electric dipole moment. If you attend and write a 1
to 2 page report on what was discussed and how it relates to our
course you can receive up to 25 points of extra credit on your
homework score.
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| Week 14 |
| Mon, Apr 21 |
Accelerators.
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| Required reading: |
Das & Ferbel: 8 |
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Due:
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Homework Set 12. |
| Wed, Apr 23 |
Accelerators, in particular modern accelerators.
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| Required reading: |
Das & Ferbel: 8 |
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