Course Announcement: PHYS 6802 - Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics

[Hill, Christopher]

Dear All,

I'd like to announce a class that I will teaching next semester, PHYS 6802 - Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics. The course is open to advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. It assumes no prior knowledge of particle physics and will cover the following:

Symmetries and group theory, relativistic QM, particle detectors and experiments, Feynman diagrams, the particles of the SM and the gauge theories of their interactions — charged leptons, photons, and QED; gluons, quarks, and the strong force (QCD); neutrinos, W/Z bosons and the weak force; the Higgs boson and the Higgs mechanism.

We will make use of current research at CERN’s LHC throughout the course to illustrate these concepts.

We will use the new book, “Concepts of Elementary Particle Physics” by Micheal E. Peskin (SLAC). Grades will determined by 4 HW assignments (60%) and final (40%). The prerequisites for the course are familiarity with relativistic kinematics and non-relativistic QM.

Please register as soon as possible if you are interested in taking this course. A draft syllabus is attached, but feel free to contact me if you would like any further information. Regards,

-C

Christopher S Hill
Professor
Department of Physics
3048 Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH 43210-1117
614-688-7512 Office
chill at physics.osu.edu<mailto:chill at physics.osu>

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