Physics 663 Particle Phenomenology


Instructor: Stephen Hsu, 475 Williamette, hsu@duende.uoregon.edu, 346-5128

TA:  Junichi Sakurai, sakusaku@darkwing.uoregon.edu


SUGGESTED TEXTS:             


         Introduction to Elementary Particles, D. Griffiths  

         Quarks and Leptons, F. Halzen and A. Martin 


OUTLINE :  (10 weeks)


I. Review of Fundamentals: (3-4 weeks)

   A. Dirac Equation, antiparticles, spinors

   B. Propagators, Feynman graphs

   C. Cross sections, matrix elements, etc. 



II. Lectures on selected topics, including:

   A. Overview of gauge theory and the Higgs mechanism

   B. The Standard Model and its parameters

   C. QCD and its low- and high- energy phenomenology

   D. Particle Astrophysics





Problem sets will be assigned for the material in part (I).
For the second part of the course, students will be responsible for
writing a review paper and giving a presentation based on an approved
topic related to an important experiment or theoretical idea.


Examples of suggested topics:


Quark model in QCD                              

B-meson Physics

Higgs boson phenomenology                       

neutrinos

CP violation                                    

Partons and DIS

$e^+ e^-$ collider physics

Future colliders

Z-boson phenomenology

jets

top quark phenomenology

charmonium

CKM matrix