related course: NumQM

Introduction

• notes: Particle Physics for Babies

• Classification of elementary particles

• force laws and gauge theory

• notes: physics survey

• notes: Green’s function

Fermi’s Golden Rule

• kinematics and addition of angular momenta

• notes: units, Wien’s law etc.

• notes: relativistic kinematics

• notes: W-boson exchange

• Numerical Demo: muon decay and beta decay

• Scattering and Resonances

• Phase Spaces and Dalitz Decay

• notes: pdg kinematics

• notes: pdg resonances

Maxwell’s Equations and Differential Forms

• notes: differential forms

Symmetries of Hadrons

• Flavor symmetry
• notes: flavor symmetry
• Symmetries and their fate; Noether’s currents
• SU2 rotations
• notes: chiral symmetry

Basics of QFTs

• 3 ways to QFT

• Scalar, Dirac, and gauge fields

• notes: translational invariance

• notes: scalar fields

Chiral Symmetry

• PCAC and soft pion theorems
• effective chiral models

Homeworks

• hw01 grade