Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics

Lecture Slides

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Chapter 0. Introduction
0.1	Course Overview (PDF)
0.2	Course Organization (PDF)
0.3	Teaching Staff (PDF)
0.4	Literature (PDF)
0.5	Early History and People in Nuclear and Particle Physics (PDF)
0.6	Particles (PDF)
0.7	Units (PDF)
0.8	Relativistic Kinematics (PDF)
0.9	Spin (PDF)
Chapter 1. Fermions, Bosons, and Fields
1.1	Quantum Field and Matter (PDF)
1.2	Feynman Diagrams (PDF)
1.3	Ranges of Forces (PDF)
1.4	Decays (PDF)
1.5	Reactions (PDF)
Chapter 2. Symmetries
2.1	Introduction (PDF)
2.2	Flavor Symmetry (PDF)
2.3	Parity (PDF)
2.4	Charge Conjugation (PDF)
2.5	CP (violation) (PDF)
Chapter 3. Feynman Calculus
3.1	Introduction (PDF)
3.2	Fermi’s Golden Rule (PDF)
3.3	Toy Theory (PDF)
3.4	Higher-Order Diagrams (PDF)
3.5	Divergency (PDF)
Chapter 4. QED
4.1	Free Wave Equations (PDF)
4.2	Dirac Equation Solutions (PDF)
4.3	Antiparticles (PDF)
4.4	Photons (PDF)
4.5	Feynman Rules for QED (PDF)
4.6	Examples (PDF)
4.7	Casimir’s Trick (PDF)
4.8	Cross Sections (PDF)
4.9	Renormalization and Higher-Order QED Diagrams (PDF)
4.10	Noether’s Theorem (PDF)
Chapter 5. QCD
5.1	Hadron Production (PDF)
5.2	Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering (PDF)
5.3	Feynman Rules for QCD (PDF)
5.4	Deep Inelastic Scattering (PDF)
5.5	Asymptotic Freedom and Confinement (PDF)
5.6	Hadron Colliders (PDF)
Chapter 6. Weak Interaction
6.1	Feynman Rules (PDF)
6.2	Electroweak Unification (PDF)
6.3	Pion Decay (PDF)
6.4	Quarks (PDF)
6.5	Neutral Current (PDF)
Chapter 7. Higgs Physics
7.1	Higgs Mechanism (PDF)
7.2	Fermion Masses (PDF)
7.3	Production and Decay (PDF)
7.4	Current Status (PDF)
Chapter 8. Neutrinos
8.1	In the Standard Model (PDF)
8.2	Neutrino Mass (PDF)
8.3	Mixing (PDF)
8.4	Experimental Study (PDF - 1.3MB)
8.5	Results of Neutrino Oscillation Experiments (PDF)
8.6	Mass Scale and its Nature (PDF)
Chapter 9. Nuclear Physics
9.1	Introduction (PDF)
9.2	Binding Energy (PDF)
9.3	Stability (PDF)
9.4	Nuclear Force (PDF - 1.1MB)
9.5	Shell Model (PDF)
9.6	Gamma Decay (PDF)
9.7	Fission (PDF)
9.8	Fusion (PDF)
Chapter 10. Instrumentation
10.1	Particle Interaction with Matter (PDF - 1.1MB)
10.2	Tracking Detectors (PDF)
10.3	Calorimetry (PDF)
10.4	Accelerators (PDF - 5MB) [adapted from the Advanced Accelerator Physics slides by Prof. Georg Hoffstaetter, Cornell University]