PHYS 576 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
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You can find my full lecture notes from last year here: LECTURE NOTES 2024
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1 |
Wednesday
22 Jan |
Lecture 1 Lecture 1 slides |
Overview, QCD Feynman diagrams |
Assign HW1 |
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Monday
27 Jan |
Lecture 2 |
QCD Feynman diagrams | |
Tuesday
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Wednesday
29 Jan |
Lecture 3 |
Isospin+Bound states | ||
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3 |
Monday
3 Feb |
Lecture 4 |
Isospin+Bound states |
HW1 due |
Tuesday
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Wednesday
5 Feb
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Lecture 5 |
Isospin+Bound states Noronha-Hostler traveling - substitute |
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4 |
Monday
10 Feb |
Lecture 6 |
Isospin+Bound states |
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
12 Feb |
Lecture 7 |
Charge, Parity, Time Reversal |
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5 |
Monday
17 Feb |
Lecture 8 |
Heavy flavor |
Due date HW2 |
Tuesday
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Wednesday
19 Feb |
Lecture 9 |
Decays and Interactions |
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6 |
Monday
24 Feb |
Lecture 10 |
Perturbation Theory | |
Tuesday
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Wednesday
26 Feb |
Lecture 11
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Bilinears | Extra Credit: Jocelyn Bell Colloquium! | |
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Friday
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7 |
Monday
3 Mar |
Lecture 12 |
QCD |
Due date HW3 |
Tuesday
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Wednesday
5 Mar |
Lecture 13 |
QCD Feynman Rules |
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Thursday
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8 |
Monday
10 Mar |
Lecture 14 |
Color Confinement, Hadrons, Deep-Inelastic Scattering |
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
12 Mar |
Lecture 15 |
Deep-Inelastic Scattering |
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9 | 3/17-3/22 | Spring Break | No lecture! | I'm out of the country and will be unavailable via email during this week. |
10 |
Monday
24 Mar |
Lecture 16 |
Deep-Inelastic Scattering |
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
26 Mar |
Lecture 17 |
Finish DIS, lattice QCD |
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Thursday
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Friday
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11 |
Monday
31 Mar |
Lecture 18 |
lattice QCD |
Due date HW4 |
Tuesday
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Wednesday
2 Apr |
Lecture 19
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Lattice QCD |
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Thursday
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Friday
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12 |
Monday
7 Apr |
Lecture 20 |
Lattice QCD Noronha-Hostler traveling, substitute or zoom |
Abstract Due!! |
Tuesday
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Wednesday
9 Apr |
Lecture 21 |
Lattice QCD: history Noronha-Hostler traveling, substitute or zoom |
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Friday
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13 |
Monday
14 Apr |
Lecture 22 |
Heavy-ions: overview |
Due date HW5 |
Tuesday
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Wednesday
16 Apr |
Lecture 23 |
Heavy-ions: optical Glauber |
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Thursday
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Friday
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14 |
Monday
21 Apr |
Lecture 24 |
Heavy-ions: Monte Carlo Glauber
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
23 Apr
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Lecture 25 |
Heavy-ions: Hydro |
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Thursday
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Friday
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15 |
Monday
26 Apr |
Lecture 26 |
Heavy-Ions: Hydro |
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
28 Apr |
Lecture 27 |
Heavy-Ions: Hydro | ||
Thursday
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Friday
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16 |
Monday
5 May |
Lecture 28 |
Heavy-Ions: Hydro |
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
7 May |
Final Presentations |
Due date HW6 |
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Friday
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