Lecture Notes

1) Introduction

2) Units, Special Relativity, 4-Vectors, Decay Formulae

3) Scattering and Feynman Diagrams

4) Anti-Particles

5) Accelerators

5) Angular Momentum and Spin

6) Magnetic Moments

8) Particle Classification & Lepton Number

9)  Decays in Quantum Mechanics

10)  Hadronic Structure & Cross Sections

11) Born  Approximation, Form Factors, Nuclear Size & Shape

12)   Leptons as Point Particles

13)   The Size and Shape of the Proton

14)   Inelastic ep Scattering

15)   Deep Inelastic Scattering and Partons

16)  Symmetries, Invariance, and Conservation Laws

17)  Continuous Symmetry Transformations & Gauge Invariance

18)  Additive Quantum Nos, and the Hierarchy of Gauge Forces

19)  Discrete Symmetry Transformations & Parity

20)  Time Reversal and Charge Conjugations

21)  CP Violation in the Neutral Kaon System

22)  Strangeness Oscillations

23)  Weak Interaction - (V-A) Space Time Structure

24)  Flavour Mixing - The Cabbibo Angle

25)  3 Generation Mixing - Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa  Matrix

26)  Angular  Momentum, SU(2), and Isospin

27)  The Electroweak Interaction

28)  Weak Isospin & Hypercharge

29)  The Standard Electroweak Model

30)  Experimental Results on Standard Model

31)  Summary & Study Guide

 

Note:  These notes are in pdf format.

 

Previous years lecture notes: 2001 Lecture Notes

Previous years lecture notes: 1998 Lecture Notes


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