Class Outline

Date	Lecture	Textbook Reading	Homework
Thu 7 Sep	Introduction		PS 1 assigned
Tue 12 Sep	Review of Special Relativity	1, 2.1-2.2
Thu 14 Sep	Quantum Mechanics	2.3
Tue 19 Sep	Golden Rule, decays, cross sections	3
Thu 21 Sep	Relativistic wave equations	4.1-4.5
Tue 26 Sep	More properties of the Dirac Equation	4.6-4.9
Thu 28 Sep	Feynman Rules for QED	5	PS1 due, PS2 assigned
Tue 3 Oct	Electron-positron annihilation	6.1-6.4
Thu 5 Oct	QED experiments	6.5
Tue 10 Oct	Review
Thu 12 Oct	midterm		solutions
Tue 17 Oct	Electron-proton scattering and form factors	7.1-7.2
Thu 19 Oct	Symmetries and local gauge invariance	7.3-7.4
Tue 24 Oct	Quantum Chromodynamics	9.1, 10.1	PS2 due, PS3 assigned
Thu 26 Oct	Weak Interactions	11
Tue 31 Oct	Weak interactions continued	12.1, 12.2
Thu 2 Nov	Weak interaction of quarks	14.1-14.3, 14.4.1,14.4.2, 14.7
Tue 14 Nov	Neutrino oscillations	13, 15.1-15.2	PS 3 Due PS4 Assigned
Thu 16 Nov	No class
Tue 21 Nov	Electroweak Mixing	15.3
Thu 23 Nov	Electroweak physics	16.1-16.3
Tue 28 Nov	Lagrangians and spontaneous symmetry breaking	17.1-17.3
Thu 30 Nov	Higgs mechanism and boson	17.4-17.5
Tue 5 Dec	Summary		PS 4 Due