Fall 2023 (on-going)
related course: NumQM
Introduction
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Classification of elementary particles
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force laws and gauge theory
Fermi’s Golden Rule
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kinematics and addition of angular momenta
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Scattering and Resonances
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Phase Spaces and Dalitz Decay
Symmetries of Hadrons
- Flavor symmetry
- notes: flavor symmetry
- Symmetries and their fate; Noether’s currents
- SU2 rotations
- notes: chiral symmetry
Basics of QFTs
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3 ways to QFT
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Scalar, Dirac, and gauge fields
Chiral Symmetry
- PCAC and soft pion theorems
- effective chiral models
project ideas
- Bound States
- NJL models
- making sense of Legendre Transform
- g-2: magnetic moment of electron, further news
- Helium Nucleus
- Isotopes
- Functional Methods and SDEs
- How to Renormalize the Schroedinger Equation
- chiral effective field theory and nuclear forces