Class Outline

Date	Lecture	Textbook Reading	Homework
Tues 13 Sep	Introduction		PS 1 assigned
Thurs 15 Sep	Review of Special Relativity	1, 2.1-2.2
Tues 20 Sep	Quantum Mechanics	2.3
Thurs 22 Sep	Golden Rule, decays, cross sections	3
Tues 27 Sep	Relativistic wave equations	4.1-4.5
Thurs 29 Sep	Review	4.6-4.9
Tues 4 Oct	The Dirac Equation	5	PS1 due, PS2 assigned
Thurs 6 Oct	Feynman Rules for QED	6.1-6.4
Tues 11 Oct	Electron-positron annihilation	6.5
Thurs 13 Oct	QED experiments
Tues 18 Oct	Electron-proton scattering and form factors	7.1-7.2
Thurs 20 Oct	Form Factors	7.3-7.4
Tues 25 Oct	Symmetries and local gauge invariance	9.1, 10.1	PS2 due, PS3 assigned
Thurs 27 Oct	Strong Interactions	10.2-10.6
Tues 1 Nov	Weak interactions	11
Thurs 3 Nov	Midterm
Tues 8 Nov	No Class
Thurs 10 Nov	Weak interaction of leptons	12.1, 12.2
Tues 15 Nov	Weak interaction of quarks	14.1-14.3, 14.4.1,14.4.2, 14.7
Thurs 17 Nov	Electroweak Mixing	15.1-15.2
Tues 22 Nov	No class		PS3 due PS4 assigned
Thurs 24 Nov	Neutrino oscillations	13
Tues 29 Nov	Electroweak physics	16.1-16.2
Thurs 1 Dec	Lagrangians and spontaneous symmetry breaking	17.1-17.3
Tues 6 Dec	Higgs mechanism	17.4-17.5	PS 4 Due