Introduction to Particle Physics

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Physics 152/252, Spring 2003

Room 380-380X (Main Quad, side nearest Varian, under Mathematics)

Monday and Wednesday, 3:15p.m - 4:45p.m.

Instructor:  Lance Dixon

e-mail: lance@DUMMY_NAMEslac.stanford.edu; telephone: (650)-926-2627; fax: (650)-926-2525

Office: SLAC, Central Lab (Building 40), R326

Teaching Assistant:  Marc Schreiber

e-mail: mschreib@DUMMY_NAMEstanford.edu


Textbook: David Griffiths, "Introduction to Elementary Particles" (Wiley, 1987), QCD161:G68
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 Lectures

Lecture 1 (April 2):   Introduction 

Lecture 2 (April 7):  Introduction (cont)   / Lightning History of the Field  

Lecture 3 (April 9):  Relativistic Kinematics

Lecture 4 (April 14):   Relativistic Kinematics /  Relativistic Kinematics (cont.)  

Lecture 5 (April 16):   Particle Accelerators 

No Lecture April 21.

Lecture 6 (April 23):   Symmetries  (Aaron Pierce)    (no notes available, sorry)

Lecture 7 (April 28):  Particle Detectors

Lecture 8 (April 30):    Scattering and Feynman graphs

Lecture 9 (May 5):    Quantum Electrodynamics

Lecture 10 (May 7):   Quantum Electrodynamics (Cont.)

Lecture 11 (May 12):   Quantum Electrodynamics (Cont.)

Lecture 12 (May 14):   Quantum Electrodynamics (Cont.)

Lecture 13 (May 19):   Quantum Chromodynamics

Lecture 14 (May 21):   Quantum Chromodynamics

No lecture May 26 (Memorial Day)

May 28:   Class Projects

Lecture 15 (June 2):   Weak Interactions

Lecture 16 (June 4):   Weak Interactions & CP violation

Final Exam:   Take home, open book (Griffiths only).   To be handed out June 4, due back June 11 (or earlier).

Final Exam Solutions
 

Problem Sets

Problem Set 1 [ PDF ] - due April 16             Solutions to Set 1 

Problem Set 2 [ PDF ] - due April 30             Solutions to Set 2 

Problem Set 3 [ PDF ] - due May 14             Solutions to Set 3 

Problem Set 4 [ PDF ] - due June 4               Solutions to Set 4



Class Project Information