High Energy Physics
Syllabus
© R. Johnson 2000 - All rights
reserved
- Textbook: Introduction to
Elementary Particles by David Griffiths
- Ancillary texts (on reserve
in the library):
- Introduction to
High Energy Physics by Donald Perkins, 3rd edition.
- Modern Elementary
Particle Physics by Gordon Kane
- Quarks and Leptons:
An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics by Francis Halzen
and Alan Martin
- Elementary Particle
Physics by Stephen Gasiorowicz
- Relativistic
Quantum Mechanics by James Bjorken and Sidney Drell
- Course Web Page: http://www.physics.uc.edu/~johnson/HEP/Index.html
- Outline of the course (pace
is approximate):
First Quarter
- Overview (1 lecture)
- Relativity (1 lecture)
- Accelerators (2
lectures)
- Detectors (1 lecture)
- Cross sections, decay
rates, and the S-matrix (2 lectures)
- Invariance Principles
(3 lectures)
- Hadron/hadron
interactions (5 lectures)
- Static Quark Model (5
lectures)
Second Quarter
- Electromagnetic
Interactions (4 lectures)
- Parton Model and QCD
(4 lectures)
- Weak interactions (5
lectures)
- Unification (5
lectures)
- Student talks (2
lectures)
- Problem Sets: Problem sets
will be assigned at approximately two week intervals with specific due
dates. No late problem sets will be accepted.
- Student talks (second quarter
only): a fifteen minute talk and paper is required. The subject of the
talk can be anything related to high energy physics and is up to you with
my approval.
Time schedule of talk:
- Title and Abstract:
May 2, 2000
- Outline: May 23, 2000
- Talks: May 30 and June
1, 2000
- Paper due: June 5,
2000
- Grading
- First Quarter: Grades
will be based entirely on problem sets.
- Second Quarter: 2/3rds
from problem sets; 1/3rd from talk and paper.
Contact the instructor: Randy.Johnson@UC.edu