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Contents
1
Introduction
2
A history of particle physics
2.1
Nobel prices in particle physics
2.2
A time line
2.3
Earliest stages
2.4
fission and fusion
2.5
Low-energy nuclear physics
2.6
Medium-energy nuclear physics
2.7
high-energy nuclear physics
2.8
Mesons, leptons and neutrinos
2.9
The sub-structure of the nucleon (QCD)
2.10
The
W
±
and
Z
bosons
2.11
GUTS, Supersymmetry, Supergravity
2.12
Extraterrestrial particle physics
2.12.1
Balloon experiments
2.12.2
Ground based systems
2.12.3
Dark matter
2.12.4
(Solar) Neutrinos
3
Experimental tools
3.1
Accelerators
3.1.1
Resolving power
3.1.2
Types
3.1.3
DC fields
3.2
Targets
3.3
The main experimental facilities
3.3.1
SLAC (B factory, Babar)
3.3.2
Fermilab (D0 and CDF)
3.3.3
CERN (LEP and LHC)
3.3.4
Brookhaven (RHIC)
3.3.5
Cornell (CESR)
3.3.6
DESY (Hera and Petra)
3.3.7
KEK (tristan)
3.3.8
IHEP
3.4
Detectors
3.4.1
Scintillation counters
3.4.2
Proportional/Drift Chamber
3.4.3
Semiconductor detectors
3.4.4
Spectrometer
3.4.5
Čerenkov Counters
3.4.6
Transition radiation
3.4.7
Calorimeters
4
Nuclear Masses
4.1
Experimental facts
4.1.1
mass spectrograph
4.2
Interpretation
4.3
Deeper analysis of nuclear masses
4.4
Nuclear mass formula
4.5
Stability of nuclei
4.5.1
β
decay
4.6
properties of nuclear states
4.6.1
quantum numbers
4.6.2
deuteron
4.6.3
Scattering of nucleons
4.6.4
Nuclear Forces
5
Nuclear models
5.1
Nuclear shell model
5.1.1
Mechanism that causes shell structure
5.1.2
Modelling the shell structure
5.1.3
evidence for shell structure
5.2
Collective models
5.2.1
Liquid drop model and mass formula
5.2.2
Equilibrium shape & deformation
5.2.3
Collective vibrations
5.2.4
Collective rotations
5.3
Fission
5.4
Barrier penetration
6
Some basic concepts of theoretical particle physics
6.1
The difference between relativistic and NR QM
6.2
Antiparticles
6.3
QED: photon couples to
e
+
e
−
6.4
Fluctuations of the vacuum
6.4.1
Feynman diagrams
6.5
Infinities and renormalisation
6.6
The predictive power of QED
6.7
Problems
7
The fundamental forces
7.1
Gravity
7.2
Electromagnetism
7.3
Weak Force
7.4
Strong Force
8
Symmetries and particle physics
8.1
Importance of symmetries: Noether’s theorem
8.2
Lorenz and Poincaré invariance
8.3
Internal and space-time symmetries
8.4
Discrete Symmetries
8.4.1
Parity
P
8.4.2
Charge conjugation
C
8.4.3
Time reversal
T
8.5
The
C
P
T
Theorem
8.6
C
P
violation
8.7
Continuous symmetries
8.7.1
Translations
8.7.2
Rotations
8.7.3
Further study of rotational symmetry
8.8
symmetries and selection rules
8.9
Representations of SU(3) and multiplication rules
8.10
broken symmetries
8.11
Gauge symmetries
9
Symmetries of the theory of strong interactions
9.1
The first symmetry: isospin
9.2
Strange particles
9.3
The quark model of strong interactions
9.4
S
U
(
4
)
, …
9.5
Colour symmetry
9.6
The Feynman diagrams of QCD
9.7
Jets and QCD
10
Relativistic kinematics
10.1
Lorentz transformations of energy and momentum
10.2
Invariant mass
10.3
Transformations between CM and lab frame
10.4
Elastic-inelastic
10.5
Problems
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