Particle Physics

PH3520, Autumn term, 2011

 

  Royal Holloway, University of London


Lectures by Glen Cowan and Stewart Boogert, discussion sessions by Andrew Williams.

Time and place: The class meets Tuesdays at 13:00 in Moore Building Lecture Theatre and Thursdays 11:00-13:00 in Arts Building Lecture Theatre 3. Usually (not always) Tuesday is a problem class, Thursday is for lectures.

Syllabus: Some general information and a: course outline

Lecture notes: Lecture notes will be distributed in class and are also on Moodle. These contain essentially all of the material you are responsible for on the exam.

Overhead slides: Most of the material will be presented using the whiteboard, but there will be some things shown on PowerPoint -- the slides will wind up here:

  • week 1 slides
  • week 4 slides
  • week 5 slides
  • week 6 slides
  • week 7 slides
  • week 8 slides
  • week 9 slides
  • week 10 slides
  • week 11 slides
  • Some interesting links:

  • The BaBar experiment at SLAC.
  • The Fermilab home page and live events from the CDF and DZero detectors.
  • Information on the ATLAS experiment at CERN.

  • Glen Cowan