Spring 2006 PY551 Syllabus:
Week 1 Historical Introduction
EM and Strong Interactions
Week 2 Weak Interaction
Relativistic Kinematics
Week 3 Relativistic Kinematics
Accelerators
Week 4 Interaction with Matter
Shower Processes
Week 5 Detectors Detectors
Week 6 --- Monday Schedule --- *** Exam 1 ***
Week 7 Symmetries: Isospin
Symmetries: P,C,T
Week 8 --- Spring Break --- --- Spring Break ---
Week 9 Bound States
Bound States
Week 10 Lifetimes and Cross Section Fermi's Golden Rule
Week 11 Dirac Equation QED
Week 12 Quarks and Hadrons Deep Inelastic Scattering
Week 13 Quark-Parton Model QCD
Week 14 *** Exam 2 *** Weak Interactions
Week 15 Weak Interactions Electroweak Unification
Week 16 --- no week 16 this year! --- --- class is over ---
This syllabus represents an approximate flow of the course and will be updated as the course proceeds.
See the reading and handout list for more detailed information.