Particle Physics
Introduction
- Introduction to Particle Physics
- Need of High Energy Physics
- Four Fundamental Forces
- Units in High Energy Physics
- Natural System of Units
- Particle Accelerators & Types
- 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Generation Particles
- Center of Mass Frame vs. Laboratory Frame
- Gravitational vs Nuclear Binding Energy (Mass Defect)
Invariance Principles & Conservation Laws
- Symmetries & Conservation Laws
- Continuous Transformations
- Discrete Transformation
- Parity Transformation
- Wu’s Experiment & Parity Violation
- Feynman Rules for Quantum Electrodynamics (QED)
- Electron-Muon Scattering Amplitude (M) Calculation
- Electron-Positron Scattering Amplitude (M) Calculation
- SU(1), SU(2), SU(3) – Unitary Groups (QCD)
- More topics coming soon…
Problems
Quantity | High Energy Unit | Value in SI units |
Length | 1 fm | $10^{-15}$ m |
Energy | 1 Gev = $10^{9}$ eV | 1.602 x $10^{-10}$ J |
mass, E/$c^{2}$ | 1 Gev/$c^{2}$ | 1.78 x $10^{-27}$ kg |
$\hbar$ = $\frac{h}{2\pi}$ | 6.588 x $10^{-25}$ GeV s | 1.055 x $10^{-34}$ J s |
c | 2.998 x $10^{23}$ fm s^{-1} | 2.998 x $10^{8}$ m $s^{-1}$ |
$\hbar$c | 0.1975 GeV fm | 3.162 x $10^{-26}$ J m |
Particle Physics
Introduction
- Introduction to Particle Physics
- Need of High Energy Physics
- Four Fundamental Forces
- Units in High Energy Physics
- Natural System of Units
- Particle Accelerators & Types
- 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Generation Particles
- Center of Mass Frame vs. Laboratory Frame
- Gravitational vs Nuclear Binding Energy (Mass Defect)
Invariance Principles & Conservation Laws
- Symmetries & Conservation Laws
- Continuous Transformations
- Discrete Transformation
- Parity Transformation
- Wu’s Experiment & Parity Violation
- Feynman Rules for Quantum Electrodynamics (QED)
- Electron-Muon Scattering Amplitude (M) Calculation
- Electron-Positron Scattering Amplitude (M) Calculation
- SU(1), SU(2), SU(3) – Unitary Groups (QCD)
- More topics coming soon…
Problems