Physics 572, Fall 2005

SUBATOMIC PHYSICS

Times: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00 - 12:15 AM

Locations: Physics Room 218

Instructor: S. Liuti, room 312 C in the Physics Building (434) 982-2087, e-mail: sl4y@virginia.edu. Office hours: open and/or by appointment.

Required text: Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics , D. Griffiths (John Wiley and Sons)

Homework assignments : All problem sets are due on Thursdays

$\Rightarrow$ How your grade is determined: Homework: 30% Final Exam: 70%

Lectures

Session	Date	Topic	Chapter(s)
#1	Aug. 30 Tue.	Historical Introduction /Forces	1-2
#2.	Sept. 1 Thur.	Historical Introduction /Forces	1-2
#3.	Sept. 6 Tue.	Relativistic Kinematics	3
#4.	Sept. 8 Thur.	Relativistic Kinematics	3
#5.	Sept. 13 Tue.	Symmetries	4
#6.	Sept. 15 Thur.	Symmetries	4
#7.	Sept. 20 Tue.	Bound states and Hadron Spectra	5
#8.	Sept. 22 Thur.	Bound States and Hadron Spectra	5
#9.	Sept. 27 Tue.	Glueballs, Pentaquarks and Exotics
#10.	Sept. 29 Thur.	Feynman calculus and QED	6
#11.	Oct. 4 Tue.	Feynman calculus and QED	6-7
#12.	Oct. 6 Thur.	Feynman calculus and QED	6-7
#13.	Oct. 11 Tue.	TBA
#14.	Oct. 13 Thur.	TBA
#15.	Oct. 18 Tue.	Electromagnetic Probes of Hadrons	8
#16.	Oct. 20 Thur.	Electromagnetic Probes of Hadrons	8
#17.	Oct. 25 Tue.	Electromagnetic Probes of Hadrons	8
#18.	Oct. 27 Thur.	Electromagnetic Probes of Hadrons	8
#19.	Nov 1 Tue.	Quantum Chromodynamics	9
#20.	Nov. 3 Thur.	Quantum Chromodynamics	9
#21.	Nov 8 Tue.	Phenomenology of QCD	9
#22.	Nov. 10 Thur.	Phenomenology of QCD	9
#23.	Nov. 15 Tue.	Weak Interactions	10
# 24.	Nov. 17 Thur.	Weak Interactions	10

Thanksgiving recess

#25.	Nov. 29 Tue.	Current topics
#26.	Dec. 1 Thur.	Current topics
#27.	Dec. 6 Tue.	Current topics