PY551 Schedule - Spring 2006
Week
(Lecture #)
Date
Topic Supplementary Reading & Handouts Griffiths Reading

1
(1)
1/17
Historical Introduction
Slides handouts
Chapter 1
(2)
1/24
EM and Strong Int.
Slides handouts
Chapter 2

2
(3)
1/25
Weak Interactions
Slides handouts
Chapter 2
(4)
1/26
Relativistic Kinematics
Chapter 3

3
(5)
1/31
Relativistic Kinematics
Chapter 3
(6)
2/2
Accelerators
Segre chapter

4
(7)
2/7
Interaction with Matter
Fernow Chapter 2
(8)
2/8*
Shower Processes
Fernow Chapter 11

5
(9)
2/14
Detectors
Perkins chapter, Slide handouts
(10)
2/16
Detectors
Slide handouts

6
2/21
Monday schedule
2/23
EXAM 1
 

7
(11)
2/28
Isospin
See also 4.1, 1.7, 5.7+
(12)
3/1
PCT
Slide handouts
Chapter 4

9
(13)
3/14
Bound States
Cheng and Li Chapter 4
Chapter 5
(14)
3/16
Bound States
Slide handouts
Chapter 5

10
(15)
3/21
Lifetimes and Cross Sections
Chapter 6
(16)
3/23
Fermi's Golden Rule
Chapter 6

11
(17)
3/28
Dirac Equation
Chapter 7
(18)
3/30
QED
Slide handouts
Chapter 7

12
(19)
4/4
Quarks and Hadrons
Slide handouts
Chapter 8
(20)
4/6
Deep Inelastic Scattering
Cahn and Goldhaber Chapter 8, slides
Chapter 8

13
(21)
4/11
Quark Parton Model
Slide handouts
Chapter 8
(21)
4/13
QCD
Slide handouts
Chapter 9

14
(22)
4/18
EXAM 2
Chapter 10
(23)
4/20
Weak Interaction
Slide handouts
Chapter 10

15
(24)
4/13
Weak Interaction
Slide handouts
Chapter 10
4/15
Electroweak Unification
Slide handouts