Current Lecture Notes

 Lecture 1 - Introduction  

Experimental Subatomic Experiments

 Lecture 2 - Subatomic Experiments 

 Lecture 3 - Accelerators 

 Lecture 4 - Particle Detector Physics 

 Lecture 5 - Particle Detectors (e.g. Germanium Spectrometer) 

 Lecture 6 - Collider Particle Detectors 

Structure

 Lecture 7 - Particle Structure 

 Lecture 8 - Scattering and Structure 

Conservation Laws

 Lecture 9 - Why doesn't everything decay right away? 

 Lecture 10 - Energy, Spin, Baryon & Lepton Number 

 Lecture 11 - Flavour, Parity 

 Lecture 12 - Charge Conjugation and CP, Antiparticles and T 

 Lecture 13 - Symmetries, Gauge Invariance 

Interactions

 Lecture 14 - Electromagnetism and Feynman diagrams 

 Lecture 15 - Midterm Test 

 Lecture 16 - Electron-positron annihilation into hadrons 

 Lecture 17 - Wave Optical Model of Scattering and Unitarity 

 Lecture 18 - Resonances 

 Lecture 19 - Weak Interactions and Beta Decays 

 Lecture 20 - Weak Generation Mixing 

 Lecture 21 - Electroweak Unification 

 Lecture 22 - Strong Interactions, Quarks and Hadrons 

 Lectures 23 & 24 - Quarks, Gluons, Potentials 

 Lectures 25 - Strings, Hadronic and Nuclear Masses 

 

Last years's lecture notes: 1997 Lecture Notes 

 

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