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I am posting the pdf files of my summaries of the lectures here,
along with references to the corresponding sections of the textbooks,
and links to other relevant material. The lists of topics and textbook
references are diplayed here ahead of the lectures in case you want to read ahead. Note that these may get updated after each lecture.
Lectures 1/2
- Topics
- 1 Basic concepts
- 1.1 Feynman diagrams
- 1.2 Antiparticles
- 1.3 Leptons, hadrons and quarks
- 1.4 Matter as we know it
- 1.5 Forces of nature
- 1.6 Masses and lengths
- 1.7 Exchange forces
- Summary (pdf)
- Handouts: Course overview (pdf),
Feynman diagrams (pdf),
Building blocks of
matter (pdf)
- Textbook references: Martin 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.7; Martin and Shaw 1.1-1.4; Perkins 1.1-1.4, 2.1-2.5;
Krane 1.4, 4.5, 18.1
- Supplementary information:
- Examples: Sheet 1, questions 1-4
Lectures 3/4
- Topics
- 1.8 Spacetime symmetries
- 1.9 Addition of angular momenta
- 1.10 Parity
- 1.11 Internal symmetries
- Summary (pdf)
- Handouts: Angular momentum in quantum mechanics (pdf),
Discrete symmetries in nuclear and particle physics (pdf)
- Textbook references: Martin 1.3.1, 3.1.1, 3.2.2;
Martin and Shaw 5.1-5.3, 2.1, 3.2, 6.1;
Perkins 3.1-3.4, 3.7, 3.8, 3.12, 3.13;
Krane 2.5, 2.6
- Examples: Sheet 1, questions 5, 6;
Sheet 2, questions 1, 2
Lectures 5/6
- Topics
- 1.12 Charge conjugation
- 1.13 Time reversal
- 1.14 Spin and statistics
- 1.15 Quark model
- Summary (pdf)
- Handouts: Discrete symmetries in nuclear and particle physics (pdf),
Building blocks of
matter (pdf)
- Textbook references: Martin 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 3.2, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 5.1;
Martin and Shaw 3.1-3.3, 5.2.2, 5.2.3, 5.3.2, 5.3.3, 5.4, 5.6, 6.1, 6.3;
Perkins 3.6, 3.9, 3.10;
Krane 2.7
- Examples: Sheet 2
Lectures 7/8
- Topics
- 1.16 Unstable states
- 1.17 Weak interaction
- 1.18 Parity violation
- Summary (pdf)
- Textbook references: Martin 1.6.3, 3.1.1, 3.2.2, 6.1-6.4;
Martin and Shaw 2.1, 2.2.1, 3.2, 3.5, 10.1;
Perkins 1.6, 2.11, 7.1, 7.2, 7.5, 7.6;
Krane 2.8, 9.1-9.3, 9.6
- Further reading: Henley and Garcia 9.1-9.5, 11.1-11.12
- Supplementary information:
- Examples: Sheet 2
Lectures 9/10
- Topics
- 2 Nuclei
- 2.1 Nuclear forces
- 2.2 Cross sections
- 2.3 Nuclear sizes
- Summary (pdf)
- Textbook references: Martin 1.6.2, 2.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.1;
Martin and Shaw 6.3, 7.1, 7.2;
Perkins 6.1-6.4;
Krane 3.1, 4.2, 4.4, 4.5
- Further reading: Martin Appendix C;
Henley and Garcia 6.1-6.4, 14; Wong 4.1, 4.2
- Examples: Sheet 3
Lectures 11/12
- Topics
- 2.4 Nuclear (and atomic) masses
- 2.5 Semi-empirical mass formula
- Summary (pdf)
- Textbook references: Martin 2.1, 2.4; Krane 3.2, 3.3, 8.2, 9.1
- Examples: Sheet 3
Lectures 13/14
- Topics
- 2.6 Nuclear (in-)stability
- 2.7 Fusion
- 2.8 Alpha decay
- 2.9 Fission
- Summary (pdf)
- Textbook references: Martin 2.3-2.7, 7.6, 8.2, 9.2.3;
Krane 3.3, 6.1, 8.1-8.4, 9.1, 13.1, 19.3, 19.5
- Examples: Sheet 4
Lectures 15/16
- Topics
- 2.10 Shell model
- 2.11 Ground-state spins and parities
- 2.12 Excited states
- 2.13 Collective model
- Summary (pdf)
- Textbook references: Martin 7.3, 7.4.2;
Krane 5.1, 5.2
- Examples: Sheet 4
Lectures 17/18
- Topics
- 3 Particles
- 3.1 Three generations
- 3.2 Flavour numbers
- 3.3 Weak decays and flavour mixing
- Summary (pdf)
- Handout: Particles of the standard model (pdf)
- Textbook references: Martin 3.1.1, 3.2.2, 3.3.2, 6.5.1, 6.7.1;
Martin and Shaw 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1.2, 8.2.1, 9.1.2;
Perkins 1.2.1, 1.7, 1.8, 7.14
- Examples: Sheet 5
Lectures 19/20
- Topics
- 3.4 Quark model revisited
- 3.5 Mass splittings
- 3.6 Heavy-quark hadrons
- Summary (pdf)
- Handout: Light hadrons (pdf)
- Textbook references: Martin 3.3, 5.3;
Martin and Shaw 6.2, 6.4; Perkins 4.1-4.7, 4.9
- Examples: Sheet 5
Lectures 21/22
- Topics
- 3.7 Lepton mixing
- 3.8 CP violation
- 3.9 Origins of mass
- Summary (pdf)
- Textbook references: Martin 3.1.4, 6.6.5, 9.3, 9.6.3;
Martin and Shaw 2.3, 9.2, 10.4, 11.4.2; Perkins, 7.14, 8.12, 9.7, 10.6
- Further reading: Martin Appendix D; Henley and Garcia 12.4;
Spontaneous symmetry breaking (Wikipedia)
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