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Aug. 22FL01: Particle physics overview (Note 1)
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Aug. 25ML02: Particle physics overview (Note 1, cont from s22) + Natural Units (Note 2) + Lorentz Transformation (Note 3)
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Aug. 27WL03: SR: 4-vectors, 4-velocity, 4-momentum (Note 3, cont from s8)
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Aug. 29FL04: SR: Particle creation and Decays (Note 4)Quiz-1
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Sep.   1HOLIDAYno class
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Sep.   3WL05: SR: Particle decays, Mandelstam variables (Note 4, cont from s7), transformation of angles, rapidity, massless particles (Note 5)HW01 post
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Sep.   5FL06: QM: basics, uncertanty principle, relativistic wave equations, angular momentum, raising/lowering operators (Note 6)
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Sep.   8ML07: Dirac equation (Note 7)
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Sep. 10WL08: Dirac equation (Note 7, cont from s13), Feynman diagrams, Interaction by particle exchangeQuiz-2
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Sep. 12FL09: Feynman diagrams, renormalization, g-2, range, Yukawa potential (Note 7, cont from s22)
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Sep. 15ML10: particles cross-section, mean free path, luminosity (Note 8)
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Sep. 17WL11: Decay rate, Width golden rule (Note 9)Quiz-3
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Sep. 19FL12: Width golden rule (Note9, cont. from s6), Scattering cross-section golden rule (Note 10)HW01 due
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Sep. 22ML13: Feynman rules (Note 11)
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Sep. 24WL14: Accelerators: Cockcroft-Walton, Van de Graaff, Linear accelerator, Cyclotrons, SynchroCycletrons, Synchrotron (Note 12)
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Sep. 26FL15: Accelerators: Livingstone chart, Synchrotron radiation, Secondary beams (Note 12, cont from s13), Interactions of particles with matter: Ionization and excitation, Bethe-Bloch formula (Note 13)Quiz-4
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Sep. 29ML16: Interactions of particles with matter: Landau Fluctuations, Scintillation light, Multiple scattering, Bremsstrahlung, Cherenkov radiation (Note 13, cont from s7)
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Oct.   1WL17: Interactions of particles with matter: Photo-effect, Compton, Pair production, electromagnetic and hadron showers (Note 13, cont from s15)HW02 post
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Oct.   3FL18: Detectors: PMT, GM counter, clound chamber, bubble chamber, MWPC (Note 14)
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Oct.   6ML19: Detectors: TPC, silicon detector, emulsion, calorimeter, particle detector at CMS, another type of detector (Note 14 cont. from s18)
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Oct.   8WL20: Detectors: Another type of detector (Note 14, cont. from s34), mid-term gatorEval
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Oct. 13ML21: Neutrino: beta-decay, Fermi's theory, neutrino detection (Note 15)
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Oct. 15WL22: Neutrino: lepton number, neutrino spieces, tau, helicity (Note 15, cont. from s6)HW02 due
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Oct. 17HOMECOMINGno class
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Oct. 20ML23: Neutrino: Helicity (Note 15, last slide), Neutrino oscillations, solar neutrino experiment (Note 16)
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Oct. 22WL24: Review of EXAM1, Neutrino: Solar Neutrino problems (Kamiokande, SNO), PMNS matrix with 3 flavors (Note 16, cont. from s10)
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Oct. 24FL25: Neutrino: Experimental attempt for measuring PMNS parameters: Reactor and beam experiments, neutrino mass hierarchy (Note 16, cont. from s18)
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Oct. 27ML26: Hadrons: strange mesons/baryons, isospin (Note 17)
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Oct. 29WL27: Hadrons: eight-fold way, November revolution, quark model (Note 17, cont. from s13)HW03 post
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Oct. 31FL28: QCD, OZI suppression, quark-gluon plazma, proton structures, form-factors (Note 18)
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Nov.   3ML29: inelastic scattering for probing proton sturcuture, bjorken x, structure-functions, parton x, PDF (Note 18, cont. from s12)
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Nov.   5WL30: Parity, Charge conjugation, Charge-parity (Note 19)
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Nov.   7FL31: Time reversal (Note 19, cont. from 15), lepton-quark symmetry, top-quark pair decay Br exercise (Note 20)
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Nov. 10ML32: Cabibbo angle, Electroweak unification (Note 20, cont. from s4)
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Nov. 12WL33: Electroweak unification (Note 20)
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Nov. 14Fno classHW03 due
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Nov. 17MHW03 reviewHW04 post
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Nov. 19Wno class
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Nov. 21Fno class
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Nov. 24HOLIDAYno class, Thanksgiving
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Nov. 26HOLIDAYno class, Thanksgiving
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Nov. 28HOLIDAYno class, Thanksgiving
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Dec.   1MExam 2
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Dec.   3WExam 2HW04 due
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Dec. 5 READING DAYno class
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