Physics PHY498F/1489F, Fall 2011
Introduction to High Energy Physics
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Peter Krieger
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
60 St. George Street
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S 1A7
Office: McLennan Laboratory 801
[Office Hours: drop by or make an appointment]
Phone: (416) 978-2950
Fax: (416) 978-8221
www:
http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~krieger/
E-mail:
krieger@physics.utoronto.ca
N.B. Please put PHY489 in subject line of any course-related emails.
I will try to reply as quickly as possible to your emails. However, I cannot promise
that I will do so outside of normal working hours (Monday-Friday 9-5 for example). Please also note
that I will NOT accept assigments via email.
Announcements (reverse chronological order)
Any announcements made outside of class time will appear here. I will do my best to
also post any announcements that are made verbally in class. However, I cannot promise
that this will always occur. It is YOUR responsibility to attend class or, if you do
not, to ensure that you are aware of what was discussed, including issues
not directly related to course material.
30/11/11
The solutions for assignment 3 are now posted below.
30/11/11
The solutions for assignment 2 are now posted below.
30/11/11
As agreed upon in class today, I will accept the final assignment (nominally due Dec. 5) until
5PM Friday Dec. 9. No assignments will be accepted after that. The solutions will be posted
shortly thereafter. Please note that, unless you hand your assignment in in class on Monday,
you must put your assignment in the drop box. I will be out of town for the rest of the week. I am happy
to (try to) answer questions via email, and I will be in my office the day before the exam if
there are last-minute questions.
14/11/11
A number of you have asked to have the assignment 3 problems posted as early as possible. They are now
linked below. The nominal due date is the last day of lectures, but I may accept them without penalty
for a few days after that. However, the final exam is on the 13th of December, so how long I accept late
assignments depends on when people want the solutions posted. We can discuss this in class and vote
if necessary.
08/11/11
For anyone confused by the comment in the last part of question 2 on the problem
set (since I had one question about this today) let me say the following: I don't
need an exact answer -- there is a way to do the numerical part of this problem
approximately in just a line or two of calculation. You can of course do the more
complete calculation, but it is not mandatory. So my comment about not
"overcomplicating" things was perhaps somewhat ill-phrased. I should have just
said that an approximate result would be fine. But perhaps this clarification comes
too late......
26/10/11
The formulae sheets that will be provided with the mid-term test on Monday can be
found here . Please let me know if you see anything
that you think is either incorrect or unclear.
26/10/11
The problems for your second assignment are now posted below in the homework section.
05/10/11
As reqested in class today, we will have a tutorial (related to the issues covered on the
first assignment) in the reserved time slot on Friday. HOWEVER, I have lab interviews up
until 12:15, so we will start at 12:20 rather than 12:10. Those of you who arrive at 12:10
might want to start by discussing things with one another.
28/09/11
The problems for your first assignment are now linked below in the homework section.
31/08/11
Please note that course information such as marking schemes and assignment / test dates appearing below are currently still tentative.
They will be finalized during the first week of lectures.
As we will discuss in the first lecture, I will post the slides for each lecture
below, in the Course Progress section, next to the corresponding date. I will try to do this the
day before the lecture so that people who wish to bring a copy to class can do so, but I can't
promise to manage this all the time, since I often make changes when looking things over before
lectures.
Note that on the deparmental web page for this course it say 24 lectures MWF12. The lectures are
on Mondays and Wednesdays. The Friday slot is reserved in case we need to have a makeup lecture at
some point. We can also use it for a review session before the mid-term and final exam, if people
wish. We can also occasionally schedule a tutorial if people would like that. I am meant to be in
the undergraduate lab during that time slot, but I can slip out for that hour if need be.
However, for the most part, we will not use the Friday time slot.
At any point during the term the following is meant to document the topics that have been
covered and indicate the topics that I plan to cover in future classes. In the case of future
classes, this list is mean as a guideline only, not as a formal course outline. Things
may shift as the term progresses. The term has been shortened by two lectures starting this year.
At the moment I've dealt with this (i.e. in the outline below) by shortening a couple of the later
lectures, but I will find a better way to handle this.
12/09/11: Introduction to the Standard Model slides
14/09/11: Quark model of Hadrons, Decays slides
19/09/11: Conservation Laws slides
21/09/11: Relativistic Kinematics slides
26/09/11: Relativistic Kinematics cont'd slides
28/09/11: Conservation Laws, Angular Momentum, Addition of Angular Momentum slides
03/10/11: Spin-1/2 systems, Isospin slides
05/10/11: Parity, Charge Conjugation, G-Parity slides
10/10/11: Thanksgiving: no lecture
12/10/11: Quark mixing, CP violation slides
17/10/11: Particle Decays, Lifetimes; Scattering slides
19/10/11: Fermi's Golden Rule; Lorentz-invariant Phase Space, 2-Body decays, 2-body scattering
slides
24/10/11: Feynman Rules, Calculation of Matrix Elements slides
26/10/11: The Dirac Equation slides
31/10/11: Class Test
02/11/11: No lecture...we went over the mid-term.
07/11/11: November break: No lecture
09/11/11: More on the Dirac Equation slides
14/11/11: Feynman Rules for QED slides
16/11/11: More QED, Electrodynamics of quarks and hadrons slides
21/11/11: Weak Interactions slides
23/11/11: Neutral Weak Interactions slides
28/11/11: Neutral Weak Interactions cont'd (same slides as last time).
30/11/11: Chiral Fermions slides
05/12/11: Electroweak Unification slides
07/12/11: No class
Assignment due dates are given below and noted above in the Course Progress section.
Late assignments will be accepted up to a week after the due date, with a penalty of
50%/week (10%/weekday) and a daily deadline of 5PM. Assignments later than one week
will not be accepted. You can hand in the assignments at the beginning or end of the lecture period, or use
drop box #14 in the Burton Tower stairwell (ask if you don't know where this is).
Please do not slide assignments under my office door.
Solutions will be posted on a password protected web page. The username and password will
be given out in class, or available via email (after the solutions to the first assignment
have been posted).
A note on the problem sets.
I expect that, in the course of doing your assignments, you will discuss them with your
classmates at some level. This is fine, and a normal part of the study process. What you
most emphatically should NOT do, is copy answers from your classmates (or from anywhere else).
It is fine to discuss the problems, but when it comes to actually writing out your solutions you should do this
by yourself. To copy answers from someone else is an academic offense. But the more important
reason not to do this is that you will not learn the material if you do not do problems yourself.
It is quite possible to understand the approach to solving a problem, but still find that when you sit
down to actually do it, you somehow can't get it to work out. The only way to really learn
the course material is to apply it.
On another note, the problems in Griffiths are for the most part relatively straightforward.
Most, but not all, of the assignment problems will come from the text, but I strongly encourage you,
as part of your studying, to attempt as many of the problems at the end of each chapter as you have
time for, and I am happy to discuss these with you if you find you are having trouble.
The coursework will consist of three problem sets, one test (50 min., in class), and
a final exam.
The class test will take place on October 31. More information will be provided closer
to the test date.
Information on the final exam will appear later in the term. The date and time will be available from
the university exams website .
- Class Room: MP 137
- Lectures -- Mondays and Wednesdays 12:00-13:00
- Office Hours: Drop by or make an appointment
- D. J. Griffiths, "Introduction to Elementary Particles", Second Edition (Wiley-VCH) 2008 [ISBN 978-3-527-40601-2].
Useful Reference Books
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Halzen & Martin, Quarks and Leptons, (Wiley) 1984.
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Perkins, Introduction to High-Energy Physics, 3rd Edition, Addison Wesly
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G. Kane, Modern Elementary Particle Physics, Addison Wesley, 1993.
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B.R. Martin & G. Shaw, Particle Physics, 3rd Edition, Wiley, 2008.
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B.R. Martin, Nuclear and Particle Physics, an Introduction, Wiley, 2006
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A. Das & T. Ferbel, Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, 2nd Edition, World Scientific, 2003.
- 3 problem sets (15% each), class test (15%) and final exam (40%).
Note that
there will be additional work required of graduate students taking the course, and
the marking scheme will therefore differ somewhat.
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The course will cover chapters 3,4,6,7, section 1 (and perhaps section 2) of
chapter 8, and chapter 9. We will not explicitly cover chapters 1 and 2 though I will
cover similar material in the first two or three lectures. Students are expected to
read these chapters on their own, prior to the start of the second week of classes at
the latest. The outline is of course subject to minor changes, depending on how things
progress through the term.
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The course is primarily concerned with theoretical aspects of basic particle
physics. We will not deal extensively with either experimental techniques,
or discussions of current topics is particle physics. However, given that the
CERN Large Hadron Collider recently began operation, I will try to include
some brief discussion of issues relevant to the LHC experimental programme.
- Introduction / Overview
- Chapter 3: Relativistic Kinematics
- Chapter 4: Symmetries
- Chapter 6: The Feynman Calculus
- Chapter 7: Quantum Electrodynamics
- Chapter 8: Electrodynamics of Quarks and Hadrons (Section 8.1)
- Chapter 9: Weak Interactions