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| Week | Lectures | Dates | Topics | Ref.* | Homework |
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| 1. | 1. | Sep.25 | Organization and outline of the Course Introduction to the Standard Model |
OM | |
| 2. | 2. 3. |
Sep.30 Oct.2 |
Charge structure of strong interactions Symmetries and groups Space-time and internal symmetries Color potential and heavy quarks |
AS_4.1; HM_1.3 AS_4.2; HM_2.2 AS_4.3-4.4 ; HM_2.3-2.9 AS_4.6-4.7; HM_2.13 |
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| 3. | 4. 5. |
Oct.7 Oct.9 |
Flavor SU(3); mesons and baryons Constituent quark model, masses and magnetic moments of hadrons Strong decays of hadrons, G-symmetry Vector Meson Dominance |
AS_4.8; AS_5.1; AS_5.6; HM_2.10-2.11 AS_6.1-6.3; HM_2.12; HM_2.14 AS_5.3-5.5 AS_6.4 |
HW#1. |
| 4. | 6. 7. |
Oct.14 Oct.16 |
Introduction to weak interactions Decays of muons and tau leptons Charged weak currents for quarks |
AS_8.1; HM_12 AS_8.2-8.3; HM_12.5 AS_8.4; HM_12.7 |
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| 5. | 8. 9. |
Oct.21 Oct.23 |
Charged pion decay Strange currents and kaon decay Decays of heavy quarks |
AS_8.5; HM_12.6 AS_8.6-8.10 AS_8.11-8.12 |
HW#2. |
| 6. | 10. 11. |
**Oct.24, 3.30PM Nov.4 |
Mixing and CP violation in the kaon system Mixing and CP violation in the B system Neutrino masses and oscillations |
AS_9.1-9.3; HM_12.14 AS_9.4-9.5 AS_9.6 |
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| 7. | 12. 13. |
Nov.6 **Nov.7, 3.30PM |
Spontaneous symmetry breaking The Higgs mechanism Neutral weak currents |
AS_10.5; HM_14.6-14.7 AS_10.5; HM_14.9 AS_10.1-10.2; OM |
HW#3. |
| 8. | 14. |
Nov.13 |
Phenomenology of EW gauge bosons Weinberg-Salam Model |
AS_10.3-10.4; OM AS_10.6; HM_15.1-15.6; OM | |
| 9. | 15. 16. |
Nov.18 Nov.20 |
Generation of fermion masses Nuetrino mass models |
AS_10.8; HM_15.4 OM |
HW#4. |
| 10. | 17. |
Nov.25 |
Higgs mass and couplings Higgs production and decay A Cosmology Primer |
OM OM OM |
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| 11. | 18. 19. |
Dec.2 Dec.5 |
Thermal Relics from the Big Bang Cosmic Rays Topics in Particle Astrophysics |
OM OM OM |
HW#5. |