Y3 Particle Physics
Current version of this course is on the Birmingham Canvas system.
Below is the historical material for this course, last updated for the 2013-14.
All lectures are in Physics West 117, starting 13 January 2014
- Mondays at 1500, Thursdays at 1200
References for further reading/background information are given below each lecture.
The course
Reading List is similar to previous PP courses.
2014 Summer Studentships at Rutherford Lab. (Oxfordshire), deadline 31 Mar 2014
Written lecture notes are not distributed but all transparencies/handouts are given below.
- Lecture 7 (4 slides/page) - meson and baryon multiplets
- Griffiths, pp. 30-35, 37-41 (recommend).
- Griffiths, pp. 191-193 (masses of baryons, recommend), 129-131, 135 (isospin, related to masses).
- Perkins (3rd edition), pp.146-152 (recommend).
- Williams, pp.108 - 208.
- V. E. Barnes et al. (1964), "Observation of a Hyperon with Strangeness Number Three“, Phys. Rev. Lett. 12, 204–206 (1964)
- Lecture 8 (4 slides/page) - baryon wavefunction and colour charge
- Griffiths, pp. 176-181
- Perkins (3rd edition), pp.150
- Perkins (3rd edition), pp.283-284
- Lecture 10 (4 slides/page) - QCD
- Griffiths, pp. 66-72, 173, 283-301
- Perkins (3rd edition), pp. 291-293, 303, 307
- Williams, pp. 179-181
- Martin, pp. 153-156.
- PDG review of QCD - earlier parts too detailed, suggest starting at Sect. 9.3
- Video and photos of "g-2" experiment's 3200 mile road trip, Summer 2013
- Lecture 11 (4 slides/page) - Fragmentation, running couplings
- Halzen and Martin,pp. 16-26
- Griffiths, pp. 298-301
- Williams, pp. 221-227
- Perkins (3rd edition), pp. 44-46
- Griffiths, pp. 283-288
- Martin, pp. 160-164.
- Lecture 13 (4 slides/page) - Quark flavour conservation, CKM matrix
- Griffiths, pp. 74-77, 324-329.
- Williams not the best for this topic
- Lecture 14 (4 slides/page) CKM matrix, heavy flavour production and decay
- Griffiths, pp. 74-77, 324-329.
- Martin, pp. 192-198.
- Lecture 17 (4 slides/page) - Parity, Charge conjugation, Time reversal symmetries
- Griffiths, pp. 136-144, 149-151, 161.
- Perkins (3rd edition), pp. 71-76, 83-86,
- Martin, pp. 183-186
- Some experimental studies of T/CPT invariance
- CERN Press Release, 7 Mar 2012 1st resonant transitions measured in antihydrogen
- Phys. Rep. : 374 (2003) , pp.165-270, Physics at CPLEAR, A. Angelopoulos et al. (CPLEAR Collaboration), pg ~171.
- preprint CERN-EP-2001-060, T-violation and CPT-invariance measurements in the CPLEAR experiment: a detailed description of the analysis of neutral-kaon decays to e pi nu , Angelopoulos et al.
- Phys. Rev. D 83, 092001 (2011), Precise Measurements of Direct CP Violation, CPT Symmetry, and Other Parameters in the Neutral Kaon System
- Lecture 18 (4 slides/page) - Parity violation in weak interaction, helicity
- Williams, pp. 305-310; see also Lecture 17 textbook references.
- Halzen and Martin. p. 254
- Perkins (3rd edition), p. 214-216; 222-225
- Martin, pp. 189-192
- C.S. Wu, E. Ambler, R.W. Hayward, D.D. Hoppes, R.P. Hudson, "Experimental Test of Parity Conservation in Beta Decay", Phys. Rev. 105, 1413 (1957).
- Lecture 20 (4 slides/page) Weak neutral currents (Z) and experiments. Slides 13-21, only qualitative description expected, details not required
- Perkins (3rd edition), p317-318;
- Griffiths, pp. 72-74;
- LEP "Fest" - 10-11 Oct. 2000, collection of talks at the end of LEP (machine, beam energy calibration, particle physics)
- Lecture 21 (4 slides/page) - Z couplings, decay widths, couplings, Higgs
- Martin and Shaw, pp. 225-229
- Perkins (3rd edition), pp. 325-326; Griffiths, pp. 329-332.
- Perkins (3rd edition), pp. 321-325; Griffiths, pp. 338-342;
- Perkins (3rd edition), pp. 326-329;
- Perkins (3rd edition), pp. 339-340; Griffiths, pp. 372-381.
- Rencontres de Moriond, 15-29 Mar 2014 - very latest PP results
- [Lecture 22 was intentionally left blank]
Problem Sheets - one more example to be added
Plausible solutions to specific questions in past exam papers
- Summer 2011, q9
- Summer 2012, q6, 8c (incorrectly written as "8b"), 9b(ii), Summer 2012, q9 (a), b(i), Summer 2012, q4, diagram only
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Topic revision: r95 - 24 May 2021
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