Physics 135a
Introduction to Particle Physics

Instructor: Emlyn Hughes
Office at Caltech: 302 Kellogg Radiation Lab
Telephone: 395 4272
Email:emlyn@caltech.edu

Secretary: Mercedes Castano
304 Kellogg
Phone: 395 3959
mercedes@caltech.edu

Grader:    Donal O'Connell
donal@caltech.edu
Office Hours:  4 to 5:30 Tuesdays
Place:  461 Lauritsen

Textbook:
Introduction to Elementary Particles by David J. Griffiths

Assignments:
 Homework will be due on Wednesdays by 5 PM.  It will be accepted up to one week late for ½ credit.  The work must be your own, not copied from others.

Quizzes:
 There will be no quizzes in the course.

Exams:
 There will be no midterm or final exam.

Grading:
 Your grade for the course will be determined by your performance on the homeworks.


Course Schedule

Lecture I               Relativistic Kinematics    Sept 26
Lecture II             Bound States                     Sept 29
Lecture III            Feynman Calculus            Oct 3
Lecture IV            Feynman Calculus            Oct 6
Lecture V             QED                                   Oct 10
Lecture VI            QED                                  Oct 13
Lecture VII           QED                                  Oct 17
Lecture VIII         Quarks and Hadrons        Oct 20
Lecture IX            QCD                                  Oct 24
Lecture X              QCD                                  Oct 27
Lecture XI            QCD at colliders               Oct 31
Lecture XII           Weak Interactions            Nov 3
Lecture XIII          Weak Interactions            Nov 7
Lecture XIV          Weak Interactions            Nov 10
Lecture XV            Gauge Theories                Nov 14
Lecture XVI           Gauge Theories                Nov 17
Lecture XVII         Higgs Hunting                   Nov 21
Lecture XVIII        Parity violation                 Nov 28
Lecture XIX           Wrap up                            Dec 1
 


CLASS TIME AND PLACE:        2:30 PM on Monday and Thursdays,  107 Downs

First day of class:        September 26, 2005

Last day:       December 1, 2005


HOMEWORKS PROBLEMS

Set #1   Problems 3.4, 3.8, 3.9, 3.14, 3.15, 3.16, 3.17, 3.22, 3.23                       due:  Oct 5
Set #2   Problems 5.16, 5.17, 5.18, 5.21, 5.22, 5.24, 5.32                                   due:  Oct 13
Set #3   Problems 6.4, 6.5, 6.7, 6.9, 6.10, 6.11, 6.15                                          due:  Oct 20
Set #4   Problems 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.8, 7.12, 7.16, 7.22, 7.25                                 due:   Oct 27
Set #5   Problems 7.42, 7.43, 7.44, 8.1, 8.2, 8.6, 8.11                                        due:   Nov 3
Set #6   Problems 9.2, 9.6, 9.8, 9.14, 9.15, 9.18                                                 due:   Nov 10
Set #7   Problems 10.1, 10.2, 10.12, 10.13, 10.16, 10.17                                    due:   Nov 17
Set #8   Problems 10.18, 10.19, 10.20, 10.21, 10.25, 10.26                                due:   Nov 23
Set #9   Problems 11.1, 11.4, 11.5, 11.12, 11.21, 11.23, 11.24, 11.26                 due:   Dec 1
 

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