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Particle Physics II

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Instructor: Prof. Min Chen
Term: Fall 2005
Level: Graduate
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Particle Physics II

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Lecture 1: Fundamental Building Blocks and their Interactions

Lecture 2: Symmetries and Quarks; Discoveries of the J, Upsilon

Lecture 3: Gluons, Particle-antiparticle, Gluons inside Nucleons

Lecture 4: Dirac Formalism, Chirality, Helicity, Why Higgs?

Lecture 5: Local Gauge Transformation

Lecture 6: Solutions to the Dirac Equation

Lecture 7: Matrix, Decays, Cross Sections and Radiative Corrections

Lecture 8: Polarization, Propagator, Interaction Matrix, Cross Sections and Unitarity Bounds

Lecture 9: Unitarity Bound Violation and “New” Particles

Lecture 10: Bottom-up Approach: Unitarity Bounds, “New” Particles and their Coupling Constants

Lecture 11: Unitarity Bounds, Higgs, its Coupling Constants and Limit on its Mass

Lecture 12: Electro-weak Interactions

Lecture 13: Review

Lecture 14: Mid-term

Lecture 15: Discussion on Research Topics

Lecture 16: Prelude to The Standard Model (SM)

Lecture 17: Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Higgs Top-down Approach

Lecture 18: Masses and Interactions of Weak Bosons and Fermions

Lecture 19: QCD, QED and EW Corrections within SM

Lecture 20: Divergence in SM and Plausible Solutions SUSY

Lecture 21: Technical Color

Lecture 22: Reading Assignments based on Lecture Notes on SM, and Models beyond SM

Lecture 23: Presentations of Research Papers