8.701 | Fall 2020 | Graduate

Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics

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Lecture 0.1: Course Overview (05:58)
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Lecture 0.2: Course Organization (04:01)
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Lecture 0.3: Teaching Staff (04:24)
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Lecture 0.4: Literature (03:34)
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Lecture 0.5: Early History and People in Nuclear and Particle Physics (16:01)
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Lecture 0.6: Particles (14:00)
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Lecture 0.7: Units (05:48)
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Lecture 0.8: Relativistic Kinematics (15:21)
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Lecture 0.9: Spin (05:05)
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Lecture 1.1: Quantum Field and Matter (07:04)
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Lecture 1.2: Feynman Diagram (05:54)
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Lecture 1.3: Ranges of Forces (05:29)
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Lecture 1.4: Decays (07:37)
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Lecture 1.5: Reactions (03:54)
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Lecture 2.1: Introduction (07:15)
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Lecture 2.2: Flavor Symmetry (06:50)
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Lecture 2.3: Parity (04:29)
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Lecture 2.4: Charge Conjugation (02:30)
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Lecture 2.5: CP (11:17)
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Lecture 3.1: Introduction (02:18)
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Lecture 3.2: Fermi's Golden Rule (06:37)
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Lecture 3.3: Toy Theory (05:42)
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Lecture 3.4: Higher-Order Diagrams (03:30)
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Lecture 3.5: Divergency (06:33)
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Lecture 4.1: Free Wave Equation (05:38)
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Lecture 4.10: Noether's Theorem (05:22)
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Lecture 4.2: Dirac Equation Solutions (06:04)
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Lecture 4.3: Antiparticles (03:04)
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Lecture 4.4: Photon (07:47)
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Lecture 4.5: Feynman Rules for QED (05:51)
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Lecture 4.6: Examples (04:22)
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Lecture 4.7: Casimir's Trick (10:24)
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Lecture 4.8: Cross Sections (06:50)
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Lecture 4.9: Renormalization and Higher-Order QED Diagrams (04:43)
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Lecture 5.1: Hadron Production (09:27)
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Lecture 5.2: Elastic Electron-Positron Scattering (06:49)
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Lecture 5.3: Feynman Rules in QCD (05:50)
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Lecture 5.4: Deep Inelastic Scattering (09:51)
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Lecture 5.5: Asymptotic Freedom (06:53)
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Lecture 5.6: Hadron Collider (03:55)
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Lecture 6.1: Feynman Rules (09:44)
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Lecture 6.2: Electroweak Unification (09:25)
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Lecture 6.3: Pion Decay (07:50)
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Lecture 6.4: Quarks (09:17)
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Lecture 6.5: Neutral Current (02:19)
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Lecture 7.1: Higgs Mechanism (13:24)
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Lecture 7.2: Fermion Masses (03:42)
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Lecture 7.3: Production and Decay (05:35)
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Lecture 7.4: Current Status (08:13)
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Lecture 8.1: In the Standard Model (05:04)
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Lecture 8.2: Mass (05:15)
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Lecture 8.3: Mixing (05:37)
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Lecture 8.4: Experimental Study (11:11)
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Lecture 8.5: Results of Neutrino Oscillation Experiments (05:36)
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Lecture 8.6: Mass Scale and Nature (07:21)
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Lecture 9.1: Introduction (05:26)
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Lecture 9.2: Binding Energies (09:31)
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Lecture 9.3: Stability (10:22)
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Lecture 9.4: Nuclear Force (09:18)
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Lecture 9.5: Shell Model (06:31)
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Lecture 9.6: Gamma Decay (04:42)
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Lecture 9.7: Fission (05:26)
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Lecture 9.8: Fusion (09:26)
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Lecture 10.1: Particle Interaction with Matter (17:13)
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Lecture 10.2: Tracking Detectors (09:26)
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Lecture 10.3: Calorimetry (06:24)
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Lecture 10.4: Accelerators (23:57)

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