Physics PHY498F/1489F, Fall 2013
Introduction to High Energy Physics

Course Home Page: http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~krieger/phys489.html

[ Instructor | Announcements | Course Progress | Homework | Class Room and Hours ]
[ Text Book | Useful Links | Grading | Course Plan | Tentative Outline ]

Instructor
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: Friday at 2PM, but you can try dropping by at other times, or you can 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.

07/12/13 The solutions for assignment4 are now linked below.

03/12/13 Please remember to fill out the online course evaluations.

02/12/13 As announced in class (twice now) I will accept the final assignment without penalty until 5PM this coming Friday. No assignments will be accepted after that point.

25/11/13 The solutions for assignment3 are now linked below.

20/11/13 The problems for your last assignment are now posted below.

01/11/13 The problems for your third assignment are now posted below. Note that I have changed the due date from Nov. 13, to Nov. 15, since I was a bit delayed in posting this.

25/10/13 The solutions for the assignment2 problems are now posted below.

23/10/13 For Monday's mid-term there are four problems. You are expected to do all of them. You should expect a question on relativistic kinematics and one that requires the use of Clebsch-Gordan tables. You should of course know how to apply conservation laws and how to draw Feynman diagrams. The mid-term covers all the material up to and including the lecture on Oct. 16.

22/10/13 Most of you submitted your first assignment promptly, but I wanted to warn you anyway, that the latest I can accept assignment 2 is Friday at 5PM. This is so that I can post the assignment solutions prior to the mid-term.

22/10/13 I have uploaded new versions of this week's lectures, with some minor corrections.

22/10/13 I have had one person tell me about a conflict for the mid-term. Anyone with a conflict needs to notify me by email with an explanation of what the conflict is (e.g. what course; is the conflict with a lecture or another mid-term, etc.) as soon as possible.

20/10/13 The solutions to the first assignment are now posted below, in the homework section. Please note the comments on question 1. You will need login information to access these solutions. I will provide that in class.

09/10/13 The problems for your second assignment are now posted below.

04/10/13 Please see the following announcement from Accessibility Services, who are looking for a volunteer note-taker for PHY489.

04/10/13 The date, time and location of the mid-term are now posted below, in the Tests and Exams section.

18/09/13 The problems for your first assignment are now posted below, in the homework section.

PHY 489/1489F Course Progress ( Past Classes , Upcoming Classes )
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.

09/09/12: Introduction to the Standard Model slides
11/09/12: Quark model of Hadrons, Decays slides
16/09/12: Conservation Laws slides
18/09/12: Relativistic Kinematics slides
23/09/12: Relativistic Kinematics cont'd slides
25/09/12: Conservation Laws, Angular Momentum, Addition of Angular Momentum slides
31/09/12: Spin-1/2 systems, Isospin slides
02/10/12: Parity, Charge Conjugation, G-Parity slides
07/10/12: Quark mixing, CP violation slides
09/10/12: Baryon wavefunctions slides
14/10/12: Thanksgiving: no lecture
16/10/12: Particle Decays, Lifetimes; Scattering slides
21/10/12: Fermi's Golden Rule; Lorentz-invariant Phase Space, 2-Body decays, 2-body scattering slides
23/10/12: Feynman Rules, Calculation of Matrix Elements slides
28/10/12: The Dirac Equation slides
30/10/12: More on the Dirac Equation slides
04/11/12: Feynman Rules for QED slides
06/11/12: More QED, Photons in QED slides
11/11/12: No lecture: fall break.
13/11/12: Electrodynamics of quarks and hadrons slides
18/11/12: Weak Interactions slides
20/11/12: Neutral Weak Interactions slides
25/11/12: Chiral Fermions slides
27/11/12: Electroweak Unification slides
02/12/12: Review
04/12/12: No lecture

Homework Assignments
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 #1 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.

Problem Set Problems Due Date Solutions

Problem Set #1 Posted 18 Sep Oct. 2 Posted 20 Oct.

Problem Set #2 Posted 09 Oct. Oct. 23 Posted 25 Oct.

Problem Set #3 Posted 01 Nov. Nov. 15 Posted 25 Nov.

Problem Set #4 Posted 20 Nov. Dec. 4 (extended without penalty to 5PM, Dec 6) Posted 07 Dec.

Tests and Exams
The coursework will consist of four problem sets, one two-hour mid-term (outside of lecture time), and a final exam.

The mid-term will take place from 5-7PM on Monday, October 28, in room BA 2155 (in the Bahen Centre).

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 and Hours

Class Room: MP 134
Lectures -- MW 12:00-13:00

Office Hours: Friday 2PM. But you can also try dropping by at other times, or making an appointment

Text Book

D. J. Griffiths, "Introduction to Elementary Particles", Second Edition (Wiley-VCH) 2008 [ISBN 978-3-527-40601-2].

Useful Reference Books

Halzen & Martin, Quarks and Leptons, (Wiley) 1984.
Perkins, Introduction to High-Energy Physics, 3rd Edition, Addison Wesly
G. Kane, Modern Elementary Particle Physics, Addison Wesley, 1993.
B.R. Martin & G. Shaw, Particle Physics, 3rd Edition, Wiley, 2008.
B.R. Martin, Nuclear and Particle Physics, an Introduction, Wiley, 2006
A. Das & T. Ferbel, Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, 2nd Edition, World Scientific, 2003.

Useful Links

Particle Data Group Particle Listings, Reviews, Databases, Educations Links
CERN Public Web Pages
ATLAS Experiment Public Web Pages

Grading (Tentative)

4 problem sets (10% each), a 2-hour mid-term (20%) and a 3-hour final exam (40%).
Note that there may be additional work required of graduate students enrolled in PHY1489, in which case the graduate marking scheme will differ somewhat.

Course Plan

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.

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.

Tentative Outline

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

Problem Set	Problems	Due Date	Solutions

Problem Set #1	Posted 18 Sep	Oct. 2	Posted 20 Oct.

Problem Set #2	Posted 09 Oct.	Oct. 23	Posted 25 Oct.

Problem Set #3	Posted 01 Nov.	Nov. 15	Posted 25 Nov.

Problem Set #4	Posted 20 Nov.	Dec. 4 (extended without penalty to 5PM, Dec 6)	Posted 07 Dec.

Physics PHY498F/1489F, Fall 2013 Introduction to High Energy Physics

Announcements (reverse chronological order)

Useful Reference Books

Physics PHY498F/1489F, Fall 2013
Introduction to High Energy Physics