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PROFESSOR: Hello,
welcome again to 8701.

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In this short video, I'll talk
about the books we are using

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and the literature we
are using in this class.

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So let's dive right into.

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There's a sequence
of textbooks I

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go back to when I prepare
the material for the class.

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You know, the one
which I use in order

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to derive the outline or
the schedule for the class

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is Introduction to High
Energy Physics by Perkins.

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But again, I use
material from a sequence

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of textbooks and reading
material for you guys as well.

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Nuclear physics is not
covered in Perkins,

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so we have here Samuel Wong's
book on Introductory Nuclear

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Physics.

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We spend about two weeks
talking about nuclear physics

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towards the second
part of the class.

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And a couple of basics, we talk
about the introductory material

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really in the sequence.

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A book I like a lot
is the Introduction

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to Elementary
Particles by Griffiths.

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And you see me using examples
out of that book a bit.

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Then on the nuclear physics
side there is Kenneth Krane.

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It's an MIT book
and a book which

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has been put together by
MIT faculty and research

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scientists.

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And then there's Techniques for
Nuclear and Particle Physics

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by Leo, which I like a lot.

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It's a little bit
of an older book,

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but it goes into some
of the technical details

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and material details which
are important to understand

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how we build detectors.

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And then a more recent book
is Modern Particle Physics

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by Mark Thomson.

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It dives right into particle
physics, the energy frontier.

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And it's really nice to read.

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It's a modern book.

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And it's easy to
read and comprehend.

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I recommend to have a look
at the review articles

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by the particle data group.

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They are really
concise articles which

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are for beginners or for
introductory level maybe

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a little bit
difficult. But as we

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go through the
material in this class,

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you should be able to take
those articles to review

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certain sections of this class.

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For example, QCD, or
electroweak interactions,

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the Higgs mechanism.

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And while you do
this, you also learn

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one of the latest results
and measurement in this area.

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I'll be posting a set of papers
as we go through the class.

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And you'll see in the
course organization

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that I'll ask you to
actually summarize

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some of those papers in
our recitation section.

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So those are going to be
important papers, for example,

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describing the
experiment which was used

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to measure parity violation,
or the paper on the Higgs

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discovery.

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That's it for literature.

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Please as always go ahead
and ask me questions.

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You know this.

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You know if you Google particle
physics or nuclear physics,

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you will find tons of
literature available

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on as many good books.

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And you might find
a different one

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from this listing which
suits your appetite

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for reading and learning.