FYTN04, Theoretical Particle Physics, 7.5 ECTS
Fall 2011
Schedule, literature, etc.
This page can be found at http://home.thep.lu.se/~bijnens/fytn04.
The official home page for the course can be found at http://www.thep.lu.se/english/education/courses/theoretical_particle_physics/
Introduction Meeting
Friday 28 October 2011, 10.15, room NB (K262), theoretical physics. Lectures will Monday, Wednesday and Friday 10.15-12.00 in the same room. The preliminary schedule can be found below, so you can see how the course goes.Exercises
Take home exam
For those we did not do or failed the take home exam:
- Contact us if you want to do the take-home exam, second go
- handing out 9.15 Monday 23 January, by email or you fetch it here.
- return Monday 30 January 12.00 (noon)
- corrected solutions presented on Tuesday 31 January
- oral in the remainder of that week
Oral exam
This exam is meant to test understanding with a list of typical questions.Course Evaluation
To help us improve our courses we want you to complete a course evaluation after the examination. The evaluation is fully web-based and anonymous. The form to be filled in is accessible via http://eval.ced.lu.se/eval/pub/449808/default.asp
The results from earlier years can be found at (locally or centrally stored)
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 NB (K262) theoretical physics (under room D, in the ground floor of theoretical physics) on Monday, Wednesday and Friday unless noted otherwise. Links are to supplementary information.
Week Date Content w43 Friday 28/10 Particles and forces (ch1)
Matrices 1, Matrices 2w44 Monday 31/10 Lagrange functions and relativistic notation (ch2)
Feynman DiagramsWednesday 2/11 Gauge invariance (ch3-4)
Group theory, Nonabelian Field StrengthFriday 4/11 The Dirac equation (ch5) w45 Monday 7/11 The Standard Model for electroweak interactions
and Quantum ChromoDynamics (ch6-7)Wednesday 9/11 The Higgs mechanism (ch8) Friday 11/11 Exercises w46 Monday 14/11 Cross sections, decay widths and lifetimes (ch9)
Important formulaeWednesday 16/11 Determination of the parameters of the
Standard Model (ch10-11-25)Friday 18/11 Exercises w47 Monday 21/11 Experimental background (ch12-13-21)
List of accelerators, ATLAS and CMS detectorsWednesday 23/11 Strong interactions (ch15-16-17) Friday 25/11 Exercises w48 Monday 28/11 Electroweak and strong interactions (ch18-19) Wednesday 30/11 Quark masses and quark mixing, CP violation (ch14-22-23-24) Mixing and Decays Friday 3/12 Exercises and scale breaking (ch20) Running αS w49 Monday 5/12 Neutrino masses and oscillations (ch 29)
Experimental results Overview lectureWednesday 7/12 The Cosmology and Astrophysics connection Friday 9/12 Exercises w50 Monday 12/12 Grand unification and Supersymmetry (ch27-28) Wednesday 14/12 Exercises and superstrings Friday 16/12 Spare/question session Literature
Gordon Kane, Modern Elementary Particle Physics, Addison-Wesley 1993, updated edition.Lecture notes
In addition to the above notes, overview lecture notes exist for the second part of the course: Ch. 9-endOther Literature
There are many books on particle physics. We are not aware of any other good book at the same level as Kane.
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, starts at lower level than Kane and ends at higher level. Has considerably more text and longer explanations.
- W.N. Cottingham and D.A. Greenwood, The Standard Model of Particle Physics, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press 2007. At a somewhat higher level than Kane, more formulas but also more precise.
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 introduction (in Swedish). Prior knowledge at this level is recommended.
- B.R. Martin and G. Shaw, Particle Physics, Wiley 1997 (second 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
Johan Bijnens and Torbjörn SjöstrandContact
- , phone 046-2220447
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Links
- Particle Data Book
- Introductory website with further links
- Major laboratories