Lectures in Particle Phenomenology Given at

Carnegie Mellon University  (1993-1995).

• Course Content
• Introduction
• Phase Space and Two-Body Decays
• Phase Space and Three-Body Decays
• Dalitz Plots for Three-Body Decays
• Symmetries and Isospin
• Isospin, The Rotation Group
• Aspects of Group Theory
• Introduction to Flavour SU(3)
• Baryons in SU(3)
• Electromagnetism in SU(3)
• Vector Meson Mixing and an Introduction to the Quark Model
• The Non-relativistic Quark Model
• Hyperfine Interactions in the Quark Model, Charmed Baryons
• Charmed Baryons, Space-Time Symmetries
• Parity, C-Conjugation, T-Reversal and CPT
• C, CP, T, CPT
• K-Kbar Mixing and CP
• Global Symmetries and Noethers Theorem
• pi-pi Scattering and pi-gamma Scattering
• pi-pi Scattering and pi-gamma Scattering Continued
• The Dirac Equation and Other Background
• Electromagnetic Interactions of a Dirac Field and e+e- Annihilation
• e+e- -> mu+mu-, R(e+e-), Running Coupling Constants
• The Yang-Mills Lagrangian and QCD
• The Parton Model and Bjorken Scaling, F_1(x) and F_2(x)
• Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Goldstones Theorem
• The Gauge Sector of the Standard Model
• The Standard Model, Yukawa Interactions and the CKM Matrix
• Charged and Neutral Current Processes at Tree-Level
• LR Asymmetry, Z0 Width, Unitarity in the Higgs Sector
• Charged Current, mu-> e nu nubar, pi-> l nu
• CVC, pi- -> pi0 e nubar, n->p e nubar
• PCAC, Strange Matrix Elements, Nonleptonic Weak Interactions
• Delta S=1 Weak Interactions and Mixing Matrix Elements
• The Unitarity Triangle, B-Physics
• Heavy Quarks

Assignments

• Assignment 1 Solution 1
• Assignment 2 Solution 2
• Assignment 3 Solution 3
• Assignment 4 Solution 4
• Assignment 5 Solution 5
• Assignment 6 Solution 6
• Assignment 7 Solution 7
• Assignment 8 Solution 8
• Assignment 9 Solution 9

Final Exam

• Final

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