Lecture Notes
1)
Introduction
2)
Experimental Subatomic Physics
3)
Accelerators
4)
Particle Detection
5)
Germanium Detector and Natural Radioactivity
6)
High Energy Physics Detectors
7)
Conservation Laws
8)
Absolute Conservation Laws: Energy, Electric Charge, …
9)
Parity, Charge Conjugation
10)
Symmetries and Conservation Laws
11)
Gauge Symmetries
12)
Perturbation Theory
13)
Particle Substructure
and (
Appendix: Classical Theory of Rutherford Scattering
)
14)
Scattering and Structure
15) Midterm Test
16)
Unitarity
17)
Resonances
18)
Weak Interactions
19)
Charm and Weak Mixing
20)
Standard Electroweak Model
21)
Strong Interactions
22)
Quantum Chromodynamics
23)
Running Coupling Constants, Kaon Oscillations
24)
CP violation and Neutrino Oscillations
25)
Neutrino Oscillations
26)
Final Exam and Table Top Fusion
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Previous years lecture notes:
1998 Lecture Notes
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