Course Meeting Times
Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session
Description
This course covers the phenomenology and experimental foundations of particle and nuclear physics including the fundamental forces and particles and composites. Topics include:
- Interactions of particles with matter, and detectors
- SU(2), SU(3), models of mesons and baryons
- QED, weak interactions, parity violation, lepton-nucleon scattering, and structure functions
- QCD, gluon field and color
- W and Z fields, electro-weak unification, the CKM matrix
- Nucleon-nucleon interactions, properties of nuclei, single and collective particle models
- Electron and hadron interactions with nuclei
- Relativistic heavy ion collisions, and transition to quark-gluon plasma
Prerequisites
Quantum Theory I (8.321) and Quantum Theory II (8.322)
Homework
New homework assignments are given out each Thursday. Homework is due after one week -- every Thursday. Assignments along with solutions are available only to qualified educators by sending an e-mail request through the OCW feedback link.
Grading
ACTIVITIES | PERCENTAGES |
---|---|
Homework | 50% |
Final Exam | 50% |