Advanced Particle Physics

Royal Holloway, University of London MSci PH4442

 

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Glen Cowan, Royal Holloway, University of London, phone: (01784) 44 3452, e-mail: g.cowan@rhul.ac.uk

Welcome to to PH4442 -- Advanced Particle Physics. This year the course is taught by the team of: Glen Cowan, Asher Kaboth, Pedro Teixeira-Dias and Veronique Boisvert.

Time and place: The lectures are Fridays 2-5 at Royal Holloway in Tolansky 125. (Tolansky is building 21 on this map.)

What the course is about: The goal of the course is to develop concepts of particle physics including relativistic quantum mechanics, Feynman diagrams, cross sections and decay rates, weak interactions and neutrino physics, the Standard Model, QCD, LHC physics.

More information on the course can be found in the slides from week 1 below.

Moodle page: U. of London MSc and MSci students should access the course through its RHUL moodle page.

Slides and notes:

  • Week 1 slides, notes.
  • Week 2 notes. A note on solving the Dirac equation.
  • Week 3 notes. A note on Green functions and complex contour integration.
  • Week 4 notes.
  • Week 5 notes and slides . A note on Fermi's Golden Rule, decay rates and cross sections (updated).
  • Week 6 notes and slides.

    • Problem sheets: There are 5 problem sheets due on Fridays at 14:00 from weeks 3 through 11.

  • Problem Sheet 1, due 13 October 2023. Problem sheet 1 solutions.
  • Problem Sheet 2, due 27 October 2023. Problem sheet 2 solutions.
  • Problem Sheet 3, due 10 November 2023. Problem sheet 3 solutions.

    • Books and other resources:

    Glen Cowan