| 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. |
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