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Fall 2019
Schedule, literature, etc.
This page can be found at http://home.thep.lu.se/fytn04.
The official home page for the course can be found at http://www.thep.lu.se/english/education/courses/theoretical_particle_physics/
Official course content in Swedish: http://kursplaner.lu.se/svenska/FYTN04.pdf
Translation to English: http://kursplaner.lu.se/english/FYTN04_english.pdf.
Introduction Meeting
Monday 4 November 2019, 10.15, Andromeda, Astronomy building. Lectures/exercises on Monday, 10.15-12.00. The preliminary schedule can be found below, so you can see how the course goes.Exercises
Take home exam
The exam will become available at Live@Lund on Wednesday 2 January 2019 from 09.00, and should be handed in on Live@Lund on Wednesday 9 January 2019 by 12.00 (noon) in PDF-format. Please make sure that you scan/photograph your answers in a way that they are clearly readable. The exams will be anonymised during the correction, so please do not leave any indication of your identity in the file you hand in.
Corrected exams can be inspected at Monday 14 January 2019 at 10.15 in the usual lecture room. Oral exams will primarily take place in the week(s) following the written exam. Note that the next term start Monday 21 January 2019.
For those who did not do or failed the take home exam:
- The re-exam will be available at Live@Lund from Friday the 1st of February 2019 at 09.00.
- The answers should be submitted on Live@Lund by Friday the 8th of February 12.00 (noon) in PDF-format. Please make sure that you scan/photograph your answers in a way that they are clearly readable. The exams will be anonymised during the marking, so please do not leave any indication of your identity in the file you hand in.
- The results will presented following week.
- Oral exams will take place later in that week.
Oral exam
This exam is meant to test understanding with a list of typical questions.Schedule and course contents
Current planning with reservation for adjustments (w45 means week 45 in the Swedish week counting. Lectures are at 10.15 in room Andromeda (Astronomy building) on Monday, Wednesday and Friday unless noted otherwise. Links are to supplementary information. The square brackets mention relevant chapters/sections in the book.
Week Date Content w45 Monday 04/11 Particles and forces [Kane: ch 1] [Thomson: 1.1,2.1,2.2]
Particle chart, Matrices 1, Matrices 2Wednesday 06/11 Lagrange functions and relativistic notation [Kane: ch 2]
[Thomson: 5,9.1,App E,6.1,17.2]
Field theoryFriday 08/11 Gauge invariance [Kane: ch 3, 4, App A, B]
[Thomson: App F,10.1,10.2,10.3,17.3] Group theory, Nonabelian Field Strengthw46 Monday 11/11 The Dirac equation [Kane: Ch 5] [Thomson: ch4,App. B,6.4], see also Lecture 4 in the notes. Wednesday 13/11 The Standard Model for electroweak interactions
and Quantum ChromoDynamics [Kane: Ch 6, 7]
[Thomson: 11.1,11.2,11.3,15.2,15.3], see also Lecture 5 in the notes.Friday 15/11 Exercises w47 Monday 18/11 The Higgs mechanism [Kane: ch 8]
[Thomson: App D,17.1,17.3,17.4,17.5]Wednesday 20/11 The Standard Model in a nutshell, Important formulae
Cross sections, decay widths and lifetimes [Kane: ch 9, 10]
[Thomson: 3.1,3.2,3.3,3.4,3.5,A.1,A.3,15.1.1,15.4,16.1,16.2,16.3]Friday 22/11 Exercises w48 Monday 25/11 Determination of the parameters of the Standard Model
[Kane: ch 10, 11] [Thomson: 8.4.1,8.4.3,10.9.1,10.9.2,
16.2.2,10.5.1,10.5.2,11.5.1,16.5] SlidesWednesday 27/11 Experimental background [Kane: ch 12, 13, 14, 15]
[Thomson: 1.2,1.3,1.4,17.6,17.7]
List of accelerators, ATLAS and CMS detectors, SlidesFriday 29/11 Exercises w49 Monday 02/12 Strong interactions [Kane: 17, 18]
[Thomson: 10.4,9.3,9.4,9.6.2,9.6.3,9.6.4,10.8] SlidesWednesday 04/12 Electroweak and strong interactions [Kane: 16, 19]
[Thomson: 8.1,8.3,8.4,8.5.1,8.6,12.2.3,10.5,10.6] Slides, Running αSFriday 06/12 Exercises w50 Monday 9/12 Quark masses and quark mixing, CP violation [Kane: 20, 21] Extra notes on CKM matrix Mixing and Decays
[Thomson: 14], see also Lecture 12 in the notes.Wednesday 11/12 Neutrino masses and oscillations [Kane: 24] [Thomson: 13] Slides
Overview lecture and ReviewFriday 13/12 Exercises w51 Monday 16/12 Grand unification and Supersymmetry [Kane: ch 22, 23, 26] [Thomson: 18.1,18.2.2,18.2.3,18.2.4] Slides and superstrings Wednesday 18/12 The Cosmology and Astrophysics connection [Kane: 25]
[Thomson: 18.2.1]Friday 20/12 Exercises Literature
New book starting autumn 2017 Gordon Kane, Modern Elementary Particle Physics, Cambridge Universirty Press, 2017, ISBN 9781107165083. Note second edition. While this is a pedagogical book at the right level, it is quite sloppy, and we have recently started to collect typos in an errata list.
Lecture notes
In addition to the above notes, overview lecture notes exist for (mainly) the second part of the course: Phenomenology part. Continuously updated 2017, these contain as well some parts not present in the second edition of the book.Other Literature
There are many books on particle physics. We are not aware of any other good book at the same level and with the same philosophy as Kane.
A book that we used for two years that is better for the contents of the phenomenology part but not so good for the standard model construction part is:
Mark Thomson, Modern Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-03426-6. There is an electronic resource page belonging to this book including a list of known misprints and some hints for the exercises. Some more misprints.Two books that cover the same and a little more ground and which both are good complements to the course book are
- D. Griffiths, Introduction to Elementary Particles, Second, Revised Edition, Wiley 2008.
- W.N. Cottingham and D.A. Greenwood, The Standard Model of Particle Physics, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press 2007.
The following books can be useful literature in addition to the main course book and those listed above. The last one is available for free.
- Hans-Uno Bengtsson, Gösta Gustafson and Lena Gustafson, Kvarken och universum, Corona 1994, gives a good but outdated introduction (in Swedish). Prior knowledge at this level is recommended.
- B.R. Martin and G. Shaw, Particle Physics, Wiley 2008 (third edition) close in level to Kane, but somewhat lower and with fewer formulae.
- Francis Halzen and Alan D. Martin, Quarks and Leptons: An introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics, Wiley 1984, offers an alternative presentation, at a higher level than this course, and with full calculations.
- Chris Quigg, Gauge theories of the strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions, Benjamin/Cummins 1983, is also more advanced. (paperback version Westview Press 1997)
- Donald Perkins, Introduction to High Energy Physics, Addison-Wesley 2000 (fourth edition), gives another somewhat more detailed presentation with more experimental background.
- Frank Close, An Introduction to Quarks and Partons, Academic Press 1979, is a more thorough but easily accessible description of the QCD part of the course.
- Luis Anchordoqui and Francis Halzen, Lessons in Particle Physics available free as arXiv:0906.1271, somewhat higher level than the course and with full calculations.
Lecturer
Leif Lönnblad and Malin SjödahlContact
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Links
- Particle Data Book
- Major laboratories
- Introductory: (also via the laboratory websites)
- Introductory website with further links
- Swedish physicists society: section for particle and astroparticle physics
- Quarknet: a resource for high school teachers