PROFESSOR: Hello, welcome again to 8701.
In this short video, I'll talk about the books we are using
and the literature we are using in this class.
So let's dive right into.
There's a sequence of textbooks I
go back to when I prepare the material for the class.
You know, the one which I use in order
to derive the outline or the schedule for the class
is Introduction to High Energy Physics by Perkins.
But again, I use material from a sequence
of textbooks and reading material for you guys as well.
Nuclear physics is not covered in Perkins,
so we have here Samuel Wong's book on Introductory Nuclear
Physics.
We spend about two weeks talking about nuclear physics
towards the second part of the class.
And a couple of basics, we talk about the introductory material
really in the sequence.
A book I like a lot is the Introduction
to Elementary Particles by Griffiths.
And you see me using examples out of that book a bit.
Then on the nuclear physics side there is Kenneth Krane.
It's an MIT book and a book which
has been put together by MIT faculty and research
scientists.
And then there's Techniques for Nuclear and Particle Physics
by Leo, which I like a lot.
It's a little bit of an older book,
but it goes into some of the technical details
and material details which are important to understand
how we build detectors.
And then a more recent book is Modern Particle Physics
by Mark Thomson.
It dives right into particle physics, the energy frontier.
And it's really nice to read.
It's a modern book.
And it's easy to read and comprehend.
I recommend to have a look at the review articles
by the particle data group.
They are really concise articles which
are for beginners or for introductory level maybe
a little bit difficult. But as we
go through the material in this class,
you should be able to take those articles to review
certain sections of this class.
For example, QCD, or electroweak interactions,
the Higgs mechanism.
And while you do this, you also learn
one of the latest results and measurement in this area.
I'll be posting a set of papers as we go through the class.
And you'll see in the course organization
that I'll ask you to actually summarize
some of those papers in our recitation section.
So those are going to be important papers, for example,
describing the experiment which was used
to measure parity violation, or the paper on the Higgs
discovery.
That's it for literature.
Please as always go ahead and ask me questions.
You know this.
You know if you Google particle physics or nuclear physics,
you will find tons of literature available
on as many good books.
And you might find a different one
from this listing which suits your appetite
for reading and learning.