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Schedule

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For the reading assignments,
H & M refers to the textbook by Halzen and Martin,
P & S refers to the textbook by Peskin and Schroeder, and
D & G & H refers to the textbook by Donoghue, Golowich, and Holstein.

Note: the Schedule is still under construction and will be updated throughout the semester.

Schwartz

 

Week Date Lectures Homework Readings
1
Wednesday
1/21/2026

Lecture 1:
Isospin symmetry
and the quark model

 

Symmetries Sec. 3
H & M Ch. 2.6-2.7
PDG review: The Quark Model
Schwartz 22.3

2
Monday
1/26/2026

Lecture 2:
Strageness and SU(3) flavor

  Symmetries Sec. 3,4
H & M Ch. 2.8-2.11
Wednesday
1/28/2026

Lecture 3:
Discrete Symmetries

HW 1
Solutions
 

Symmetries Sec. 5
H & M Ch. 2.5
Schwartz 11.4-11.5
P & S Ch. 3.6

3
Monday
2/02/2026

Lecture 4:
G parity
Elastic ep scattering

 

QCD Sec. 4
H & M Ch. 8.2
Schwartz 32.1.2

Wednesday
2/04/2026

Lecture 5:
Deeply Inelastic ep Scattering

 

QCD Sec. 5, pp 20-24
H & M Ch. 8.2-8.3
Schwartz 32.1.3

P & S Ch. 17.3

4
Monday
2/09/2026

Lecture 6:
Bjorken scaling

 

QCD Sec. 5, pp 25-30
Schwartz 32.1.3
H & M Ch. 9.1-9.2

Wednesday
2/11/2026

Lecture 7:
The Parton Model

HW 2
Solutions

QCD Sec. 6
Schwartz 32.1.3
H & M Ch. 9.2

5
Monday
2/16/2026

Lecture 8:
The quarks inside the proton

 

QCD Sec. 6.1

H & M Ch. 9.3

Wednesday
2/18/2026

Lecture 9:
Hadron-Hadron interactions
The virtual photon-proton cross section


 

Schwartz 32.1.3-32.1.4
P & S Ch. 17.4

H & M Ch. 8.5

6
Monday
2/23/2026

Lecture 10:
Beyond the Parton Model:
QCD corrections to DIS

 

Schwartz Ch. 32.2

P & S Ch. 10.2-10.3

Wednesday
2/25/2026

Lecture 11:
The DGLAP equations
Chiral Symmetry in QCD

 

Schwartz Ch. 32.2, 30.1.3

Chiral Symmetry

7
Monday
3/02/2026

Lecture 12:
Linear and nonlinear sigma models

HW 3
Solutions
 

ChPT

Scalar Mesons

Schwartz Ch. 28.2.1-28.2.4
P & S Ch. 11.4, 13.3, Problem 4.3

Wednesday
3/04/2026
Lecture 13:
Chiral Perturbation Theory

 

ChPT

8
Monday
3/09/2026

Lecture 14:


 
Schwartz
P & S
Wednesday
3/11/2026

Lecture 15:

 

Schwartz Ch
P & S

9
Monday
3/16/2026
SPRING BREAK

 

 

Wednesday
3/18/2026
10
Monday
3/23/2026

Lecture 16:

 

Schwartz Ch.

 
Wednesday
3/25/2026

Lecture 17

HW 4
Solutions

Schwartz Ch.
P & S

11
Monday
3/30/2026

Lecture 18


 

Schwartz
P & S

Wednesday
4/01/2026

Lecture 19:

 

Schwartz
P & S

12 Monday
4/06/2026
Lecture 20:  

P & S

Wednesday
4/08/2026

Lecture 21:

 

 

Schwartz
P & S
13
Monday
4/13/2026

Lecture 22:

HW 5
Solutions

Schwartz
P & S

Wednesday
4/15/2026
Lecture 23

 

P & S
Schwartz

14
Monday
4/20/2026 

Lecture 24:

 

Schwartz
P & S

Wednesday
4/22/2026

Lecture 25:

 

Schwartz
P & S

15
Monday
4/272026

Lecture 26:

HW 6
Solutions

Schwartz

Wednesday
4/29/2026
Lecture 27:
 

P & S
Schwartz

16
Monday
5/04/2026
Lecture 28:  

Schwartz
P & S

Wednesday
5/06/2026
Lecture 29:


 
Schwartz
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