Physics 4373 Syllabus
Ch. 5: The Subatomic Zoo
Mass and Spin. Fermions and Bosons
Electric Charge and Magnetic Dipole Moment
Mass Measurements
A First Glance at the Subatomic Zoo
Gauge Bosons
Leptons
Decays
Mesons
Baryon Ground States
Particles and Antiparticles
Quarks, Gluons, and Intermediate Bosons
Excited States and Resonances
Excited States of Baryons
Ch. 6: Structure of Subatomic Particles
The Approach: Elastic Scattering
Rutherford and Mott Scattering
Form Factors
The Charge Distribution of Spherical Nuclei
Leptons are Point Particles
Nucleon Elastic Form Factors
The Charge Radii of the Pion and Kaon
Inelastic Electron and Muon Scattering
Deep Inelastic Electron Scattering
Quark-Parton Model for Deep Inelastic Scattering
More Details on Scattering and Structure
Ch. 7: Additive Conservation Laws
Conserved Quantities and Symmetries
The Electric Charge
The Baryon Number
Lepton and Lepton Flavor Number
Strangeness Flavor
Additive Quantum Number of Quarks
Ch. 8: Angular Momentum and Isospin
Invariance Under Spatial Rotation
Symmetry Breaking by a Magnetic Field
Charge Independence of Hadronic Forces
The Nucleon Isospin
Isospin Invariance
Isospin of Particles
Isospin in Nuclei
Ch. 9: P, C, and T
The Parity Operation
The Intrinsic Parities of Subatomic Particles
Conservation and Breakdown of Parity
Charge Conjugation
Time Reversal
The Two-State Problem
The Neutral Kaons
The Fall of CP Invariance
Ch. 14: Hadronic Interactions
Range and Strength of the Low-Energy Hadronic Interactions
The Pion-Nucleon Interaction–Survey
The Form of the Pion-Nucleon Interaction
The Yukawa Theory of Nuclear Forces
Low-EnergyNucleon-Nucleon Force
Meson Theory of the Nucleon-Nucleon Force
Strong Processes at High Energies
The Standard Model, Quantum Chromodynamics
QCD at Low Energies
Grand Unified Theories, Supersymmetry, String Theories
Ch. 15: Quarks, Mesons, and Baryons
Introduction
Quarks as Building Blocks of Hadrons
Hunting the Quark
Mesons as Bound Quark States
Baryons as Bound Quark States
The Hadron Masses
QCD and Quark Models of the Hadrons
Heavy Mesons: Charmonium, Upsilon,…
Ch. 16: Liquid Drop Model, Fermi Gas Model, Heavy Ions
The Liquid Drop Model
The Fermi Gas Model
Heavy Ion Reactions
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Ch. 17: The Shell Model
The Magic Numbers
The Closed Shells
The Spin-Orbit Interaction
The Single-Particle Shell Model
Generalization of the Single-Particle Model
Isobaric Analog Resonances
Nuclei Far From the Valley of Stability
Ch. 19: Nuclear Astrophysics
The Beginning of the Universe
Primordial Nucleosynthesis
Stellar Energy and Nucleosynthesis
Stellar Collapse and Neutron Stars
Cosmic Rays
Neutrino Astronomy and Cosmology
Leptogenesis as Basis for Baryon Excess
(Graduate students will also be responsible for: Chapters 10,11,12,13, and 18.)