Instructor:
Mark Neubauer Tel: (217) 244-3913 msn@illinois.edu
Teaching Assistant:
Saavanth Velury svelury2@illinois.edu
Date | Lecture | Readings | Homework |
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Mon Jan 16 | MLK Day (NO LECTURE) | ||
Wed Jan 18 | Lecture 1: Introduction | Griffiths Intro and Ch.1 | |
Mon Jan 23 | Lecture 2: Fundamental Matter Particles: Leptons | Griffiths Ch. 1 | |
Wed Jan 25 | Lecture 3: Fundamental Matter Particles: Quarks | Griffiths Ch. 1 | Homework 1 (Due Feb 01) |
Mon Jan 30 | Lecture 4: Relativistic Kinematics | Griffiths Ch. 3, PHYS 325 Relativity Lectures (Sp10) | |
Wed Feb 01 | Lecture 5: Interactions and Feynmann Diagrams: QED & QCD | Griffiths Ch. 2 | Homework 2 (Due Feb 08) |
Mon Feb 06 | Lecture 6: Interactions and Feynman Diagrams: Weak Interactions | Griffiths Ch. 2 | |
Wed Feb 08 | Lecture 7: Symmetries and Conservation Laws: Groups | Griffiths Ch. 4 | Homework 3 (Due Feb 15) |
Mon Feb 13 | Lecture 8: Symmetries and Conservation Laws: Spinors | Griffiths Ch. 4 | |
Wed Feb 15 | Lecture 9: Symmetries and Conservation Laws: Flavor | Griffiths Ch. 4 | Homework 4 (Due Feb 22) |
Mon Feb 20 | Lecture 10: Symmetries and Conservation Laws: Discrete Symmetries (Parity, C, G-parity) | Griffiths Ch. 4 | |
Wed Feb 22 | Lecture 11: Symmetries and Conservation Laws: Discrete Symmetries (CP, T, and CPT) | Griffiths Ch. 4 | Homework 5 (Due Mar 01) |
Mon Feb 27 | Lecture 12: Building Hadrons from Quarks: SU(2) Symmetry | Griffiths Ch. 5.5-5.6 | |
Wed Mar 01 | Lecture 13: Building Hadrons from Quarks: SU(3) Symmetry | Griffiths Ch. 5.5-5.6 | Homework 6 (Due Mar 08) |
Mon Mar 06 | Lecture 14: Feynman Calculus, Decays, and Scattering: Decay Rates and Golden Rule | Griffiths Ch. 6.1.1, 6.2 | Sample Midterm Exam, |
Wed Mar 08 | Midterm Exam; 9:30 am - 10:50 am; 136 Loomis Laboratory Solutions | Midterm Exam, | |
Mon Mar 13 | NO LECTURE: SPRING BREAK | ||
Wed Mar 15 | NO LECTURE: SPRING BREAK | ||
Mon Mar 20 | Lecture 15: Feynman Calculus, Decays, and Scattering: Cross Sections | Griffiths Ch. 6.1.2 | |
Wed Mar 22 | Lecture 16: Feynmans Rules and the Dirac Equation | Griffiths Ch. 6.3, 7.1 | Homework 7 (Due Mar 29) |
Mon Mar 27 | Lecture 17: Solutions to the Dirac Equation | Griffiths Ch. 7.2 | |
Wed Mar 29 | Lecture 18: Bilinear Covariants, Parity, and the Photon | Griffiths: Ch. 7.3, 7.4 | Homework 8 (Due Apr 05) |
Mon Apr 03 | Lecture 19: Feynman Rules for QED | Griffiths Ch. 7.5, 7.6 | |
Wed Apr 05 | Lecture 20: Casimir's Trick, Trace Theorems, and Cross Sections in QED | Griffiths Ch. 7.7, 7.8 | Homework 9 (Due Apr 12) |
Mon Apr 10 | Lecture 21: Electromagnetic Interactions with Leptons and Hadrons | Griffiths Ch. 8.1, 8.2 | |
Wed Apr 12 | Lecture 22: Feynman Rules for QCD and Color Factors | Griffiths Ch. 8.3, 8.4 | Homework 10 (Due Apr 26) |
Mon Apr 17 | NO LECTURE (APS April Meeting) | ||
Wed Apr 19 | Lecture 23: Charged Weak Interactions of Leptons and Quarks | Griffiths Ch. 9.1, 9.2, 9.5 | |
Mon Apr 24 | Lecture 24: Neutral Currents, Electroweak Unification, and Chiral Fermions | Griffiths Ch. 9.4, 9.6, 9.7 | |
Wed Apr 26 | Lecture 25: Weak Currents and Hypercharge in GSW Theory; Lagrangians in Relativistic Field Theory | Griffiths Ch. 9.7, 10.1, 10.2 | Homework 11 (Due May 03) |
Mon May 01 | Lecture 26: Local Gauge Invariance, EWSB, and the Higgs Mechanism | Griffiths Ch. 10.3, 10.7-9 | |
Wed May 03 | Lecture 27: Beyond the Standard Model | Griffiths Ch. 11 & 12 | |
Thu May 04 | Reading Day | ||
Fri May 05 | Final Exam; 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm in 136 Loomis Laboratory |