Università Roma Tre

Program:

1. Principles of invariance and conservation laws.
2. discrete and continuous symmetries;
3. relativistic equations: Klein-Gordon, Dirac
4. negative energy solutions, helicity, spin, solutions for zero mass, neutrinos
5. relativistic perturbation theory, interaction Hamiltonian, Feynman graphs, propagator as a Green function;
6. Lorentz transformations, laboratory and center of mass system, invariant mass, reaction kinematics, reaction threshold;
7. fields of interaction, Yukawa model;
8. primary and secondary cosmic rays, the muon: decay, mass and average life;
9. kinematics of decays, combination of angular moments, Clebsch-Gordan coefficients, symmetry of the isospin;
10. decay widths and comparison between matrix elements, laws of storage;
11. phase spaction density, Scattering cross section, flux, factor of the space and of the invariant phases, scattering matrix elements;
12. the pion: charge, spin, parity, charge conjugation, isospin;
13. strange particles, hyperons, interaction of the K mesons;
14: strange baryons, mesonic and baryonic octets, SU (3) symmetry, hypercharge, Young's diagrams;
15: discovery of the anti-proton, the anti-baryons, the Delta resonance;
16: hadronic and mesonic resonances, model at Quarks;
17: representation of the mesons in the quarks model
18: potential scattering, solution of the Schroedingher equation for waves spherical;
19: diffusion and absorption cross section, unitarity limit, optical theorem;
20: resonant cross section, Breit-Wigner formula, baryon masses with Gell-Man Okubo formula;
21: the color quantum number, SU (3) representations of color, relationships between spin and SU (3) multiplets;
22: weak interaction, parity violation, madame Wu experiment;
23: oscillation of the K mesons, the Cabibbo angle, the GIM mechanism;
23: discovery of the charm and beauty quarks;
24: decay of D and B mesons, Feynman diagrams, isospin relations;
25: neutrino beams, neutrino flavor, discovery of the neutrino tau;
25: the accelerating machines e + e-, hadronic impact section, the ratio R and the number of quarks and colors;
26: measurement of the helicity of the neutrino, discovery of the anti-neutrino;
27: deep inelastic scattering, parton distribution functions;
27: hadronic colliders, proton-anti-proton and proton-proton: discovery of the W and Z bosons;
28: the Higgs boson

1. course notes, available on the course website;
2. F. Halzen, A. D. Martin, "An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics"
3. D. Scroeder, M. Peskin, "An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory"
4. S. Weinberg, "The Quantum Theory of Fields"