Topics | Textbook | Correspondence | Lecture Times | Grading | Lecture Notes

Topics

This course will give an introduction particle and nuclear physics. The only pre-requisites are second year physics courses (E&M, Quantum and Statistical Physics).

Textbook

Last year I got the following link, from the UofT bookstore, to buy a digital version of the textbook for the course. Maybe this still works now? https://uoftbookstore.vitalsource.com/products/nuclear-and-particle-physics-brian-r-martin-graham-shaw-v9781119344636

Correspondence

Lectures

Grading Scheme

Lecture Notes

What follows is the outline for this part of the course. I will try to post notes a few days before each lecture, but they may have to be updated after the lectures are given in case of typos or a change of pace, as I haven't given this course in a couple of years. Until the slides are posted the links will just be broken.

Similarly problem sets will be posted on the day they are going out, not earlier. There is also a small chance that the schedule might get juggled due to pacing in the lectures (by one or two lectures). So don't be surprised if the problem sets are posted a little later than indicated here (probably not earlier!)

	Lecture Date	Topic	Textbook Reference	Problem Sets	Practice Materials
	January 9	Introduction to Subatomic Physics	1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
	January 11	Observables, Units and Special Relativity	1.6, 1.7, Appendix B		Particle Data Booklet
	January 16	Introduction to Nuclear Phenomenology	2.1, 2.2, 2.3		Table of Nuclides
	January 18	Radioactive Nuclear Decay	2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8	Problem Set #1 (Due Jan. 27)	Neutron Decay seminar (Jan 2022 -- slides posted)
	January 23	Particle Phenomenology: Leptons	3.1
	January 25	Neutrino Oscillations	3.1		notes from blackboard
	January 30	Quarks	3.2
	February 1	Rest of Quarks lecture	3.3	Problem Set #2 (Due Feb 10)
	February 6	Hadrons	3.3	Solutions 1
	February 8	Studying Subatomic Phenomena: Accelerators	4.1, 4.2
	February 13	Particle Interactions with Matter	4.3		Practice Midterm
	February 15	Particle Detectors	4.4	Solutions 2	Solutions to Practice Midterm
	March 1	Particle Detectors (continued)		Problem Set #3 (Due March 10)	Midterm Solutions
	March 6	The ATLAS Experiment	4.5
	March 8	Strong Interactions	5.1, 5.2, 5.3
	March 13	Applications of QCD	5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7		New studies of Proton Structure
	March 15	Weak Interactions	6.1, 6.2, 6.3	Problem Set #4 (due March 24)
	March 20	W and Z bosons	6.4, 6.5, 6.7
	March 22	CP Violation	6.6	Solutions #3
	March 27	Nuclear Models	7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
	March 29	Nuclear Applications	8.1, 8.2, 8.3	Problem Set #5 (Due April 6)	Solutions 4
	April 3	The Higgs Boson theory/Observations	9.3	Powerpoint	Front Pages of 2023 Exam Final Exam -- Solutions
	April 5	Open questions in Subatomic Physics		Solutions 5	Final Exam (practice) ; Solutions

Problem sets are due at 17:00 on the Friday roughly 10 days after their assignment. They should be handed in either in class or directly to your TA for grading. Problem sets that are handed in late will have their grade reduced by 15% for each day they are late. After 6 days no credit can be recorded for them (however we will still grade them and doing them will be useful to you to prepare for the midterm and final exam). Graded problem sets will be returned (and the solutions discussed) in the following week's tutorial (ie. about a week after they are handed in).

Additional policies and procedures, as they relate to this course can be found here .

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Last Updated: April 3, 2023