Nuclear and Particle Physics - Junior Honours

Part II - Particle Physics

13 Feb 2006 --- Welcome to Junior Honours Nuclear and Particle Physics -- Part II: Particle Physics.
Information regarding this course - Lecture notes, Tutorials, 0rganisation - will be available here.

31 March 2006 --- Solutions to problem sheets are availabele in room 4203.
20 March 2006 --- All lectures and problem sheets are uploaded.
Last lecture - Thu 23 March 10 am in LTC - will be a revision tutorial.
PLease come with all your questions.
13 March 2006 --- Additional lecture this week
Tuesday 14 March 3 - 4 pm in Lecture Theatre LTC
13 March 2006 --- Lectures 7 and problem sheet 3 are uploaded.
Additional hardcopies of all lecture notes and problem sheets are available in room 4203.
27 Feb 2006 --- Revision tutorials on Part I -- Nuclear Physics will be held in next week's usual tutorial slots --
Monday 6 March at 12 am in JCMB room 5327 and Tuesday 7 March at 2 pm in JCMB room 6301
27 Feb 2006 --- Lectures 1 to 4 and Problem sheets 1 and 2 are uploaded.
I've made a list of links to useful Particle Physics web pages. Please try it out and enter the fascinating world of Particle Physics.

Lectures take place at 10-11 am in Lecture Theatre C in JCMB on Mondays and Thursdays at 10-11 am
Tutorials are Mondays at 12 am in JCMB room 5327 and Tuesday at 2 pm in JCMB room 6301
I will be available in my office, 4407 JCMB, to discuss matters relating to the course for one hour at 3 pm on Tuesdays; of course you can try also at other times but I may not be there.
You can telephone me on 50 5235 or e-mail me at F.Muheim@ed.ac.uk

The outline of the course is given here.

Lecture notes are available after each lecture as .pdf files. Hardcopies are available upon request.

Lecture 1 --- view ---	Introduction
Lecture 2 --- view ---	Experimental Techniques, Theoretical Concepts
Lecture 3 --- view ---	Quantum Electrodynamics, Feynman Diagrams
Lecture 4 --- view ---	Interactions with Matter, Accelerators, Detectors
Lectures 5&6 --- view ---	Quantum Chromodynamics, e+e- Annihilation, Charmonium, Deep Inelastic Scattering
Lecture 7 --- view ---	Quark Model, Isospin, Strangeness
Lecture 8 --- view ---	Weak Interaction, Charged Currents
Lecture 9 --- view ---	Neutrinos, Neutrino Oscillations
Lecture 10 --- view ---	Z and W Bosons, Electroweak Theory, Higgs

The following typos or errors in the handouts have been corrected in the online notes. Please email me, if you spot further errors.

Lecture 2, p.9 - s instead of sqrt(s) equation on top

Lecture 2, p.14 - exp[-i(E t - p x) ] at bottom of page

Lecture 2, p.15 - Halzen/Martin p.80

Lecture 4, p.4 - DeltaE proportional to gamma^4

Lecture 9 p.6 - E_i = p_i + m_i^2/2p_i

Tutorial question sheets are given below. Outline answers will be distributed in week 11.

Problem Sheet 1	Introduction, Measuring Techniques
Problem Sheet 2	Quantum Electrodynamics, Interaction with Matter, Accelerators, Detectors
Problem Sheet 3	Quantum Chromodynamics, e+e- Annihilations, DIS, Quark Model Typo in hardcopy: "Problem Sheet 2" instead of " ... 3" --- corrected in online version
Problem Sheet 4	Weak Interactions, Neutrinos, W and Z Bosons