Physics 226: Particle Physics Phenomenology
Fall 2011		Instructor: Marjorie Shapiro

Reading Material and Homework Will be Added the Week of the Lecture

Week	Dates	Topic	Reading Material	Homework	Solutions
1	08/25/11	Introduction	Lecture 1 Notes
2	08/31/11	Interactions of Particles with Matter, Detectors	Lecture 2 Slides PDG: Interaction of Particles w/ Matter PDG: Detectors PDG: Accelerators Lecture 3 Part I Slides: Detectors Continued Lecture 3 Part II Slides: Yury Kolomensky on Accelerators	Problem Set 1: Due Thurs Sept 8
	09/01/11	More on Detectors and Accelerators
3	09/06/11	Elements of Statistics	PDG:Probabilty PDG:Statistics PDG:Probabilty Lectures 4 and 5 Slides	Probem Set 2: Due Tues Sept 26
	09/08/11	Elements of Statistics (II)
			Statistics Lectures from SLAC Users Organization Seminar Series Statistics Lectures by Louis Lyons at Fermilab (with streaming video)
4	09/13/11	Symmetries and Conservations Laws: Isospin and Strangeness	Lecture 6 Slides Lecture 7 Slides
	09/15/11	Symmetries and Conservation Laws: SU(3)flavor
5	09/20/11	Symmetries and Conservation Laws: C, P and CP	Lecture 8 Slides	Probem Set 3: Due Thurs October 13
	09/22/11	Cross Sections and Decay Rates: The Basics
6	09/27/11	Cross Sections and Decay Rates: Additional Details	Lecture 9 and 10 Summary
	09/29/11	The Structure of the Nucleon: Early History
7	10/04/11 10/06/11	The Structure of the Nucleon: Structure Functions	Lecture 11 Slides Lecture 12 Slides	Probem Set 4: Due Thurs October 27
8	10/11/11	Strong Interactions: The gluon and the QCD Lagrangian	Lecture 13 and 14 slides Bill Gary's 2009 CTEQ Lecture on Fragmentation
	10/13/11	Strong Interactions: e+e- to hadrons
9	10/18/11	Strong Interactions: More on jet fragmentation	Lecture 15 slides
	10/20/11	Strong Interactions: Quarkonium
10	10/25/11	Weak Interactions: Parity non-conservation and (V-A)	Lecture 16 slides	Probem Set 5: Due Thurs Nov 177
	10/27/11	Weak Interactions: Weak Decays
11	11/01/11 11/03/11	Weak Interactions: Kaon Decays and CP Violation Weak Interactions: The CKM Matrix	Nobel Prize Lecture: Fitch Nobel Prize Lecture Cronin PDG: The CKM Matrix
12	11/08/11	Weak Interactions: Neutral Currents
	11/10/11	Modern Electroweak Theory
13	11/15/11	Neutrino Physics (I)
	11/17/11	Neutrino Physics (II)
14	11/22/11	Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and the Search for the Higgs
15	11/30/11	SUSY
	12/01/11	Grand Unification and Cosmology