Particle Physics I (Physics 551)
Fall 2003
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Announcements
No Class Monday Sept. 1st (Labor Day).
Schedule
Physics 551 will meet on Mondays from 11:00 am to 11:50 am and Wednesdays from 1:00 p.m. to 2:50
p.m. at SES 136.
Instructor
Prof.
Nikos Varelas
Office: SES 2134
Office Phone: (312)996-3415
Email: varelas@uic.edu
Office Hours: Mondays, 1:00-2:00 p.m
Wednesdays:
11:00 - noon
Outline
- History/Review of Particle Physics
- Invariance, Symmetries, Conserved Quantities
- Static Quark Model
- Relativistic Kinematics
- Experimental Techniques, Detectors, Accelerators
- Klein-Gordon Equation
- Dirac Equation, Scattering
- Quantum Electrodynamics
- Structure of Hadrons, Parton Model
- The Strong Interactions and Quantum Chromodynamics
- Weak Interactions
- Gauge Theories, Electroweak, GWS Model, Higgs Mechanism
- CP Violation, Neutrino Mixing, other special topics if time permits
Books
Most of these books can be found in the UoI library
system.
- F. Halzen and A.D. Martin,
Quarks and Leptons: An Introductory
Course in Modern Particle Physics (Wiley, 1984).
This will be the main text and you can find it at the UIC Bookstore.
- D. Griffiths, Introduction to Elementary Particles
(Wiley).
- B.P. Roe, Particle Physics at the Next Millennium (Springer)
- W.B. Rolnick, The Fundamental Particles and Their Interactions
(Addison Wesley)
- B.R. Martin and G. Shaw, Particle Physics (Wiley)
- F.E. Close, An Introduction to Quark and Leptons (Academic Press)
- M. Kaku, Quantum Field Theory (Oxford)
- L.H. Ryder, Quantum Field theory (Cambridge University Press)
- Aitchison and Hey, Gauge Theories in Particle Physics (Graduate
Students Series in Physics)
- C. Quigg, Gauge Theories
of the Strong, Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions
(Perseus)
- D.H. Perkins, Introduction to High Energy Physics
(Addison-Wesley)
- G. Kane, Modern Elementary Particle Physics : The Fundamental
Particles and Forces (Perseus)
- T. Ferbel, Experimental Techniques in High Energy Physics (Addison
Wesley)
- K. Kleinknecht, Detectors for Particle Radiation (Cambridge University
Press)
References
Other Resources
Nikos Varelas
varelas@uic.edu