| Lecture | Topics | Reading Material |
| 1 | Introduction to Standard Model: quarks, leptons,
4 fundamental forces, gauge bosons; composite particles: mesons,
baryons, conservation laws | Chapters 1&2 Griffiths, Scientific
American articles |
| 2 | Ranges and relative strengths of interactions; charges/couplings:
colour, weak, electric. Quark flow diagrams. Feynman diagrams
| Chapter 2 Griffiths, Scientific American articles |
| 3 | Feynman diagrams, anatomy of a strong interaction, running
of EM and strong couplings, Quark Confinement, Grand Unification
| Chapter 2 Griffiths |
| 4 | Feynman Diagrams, anatomy of Weak Interactions, Quark
Mixing, CKM matrix
| Chapter 2 Griffiths |
| 5 | Accelerators and Particle Detectors
| Perkins, handouts |
| 6 | Lorentz transformations, 4-vectors, Relativistic Kinematics
| Chapter 3 Griffiths |
| 7 | Relativistic Kinematics, examples/applications
| Chapter 3 Griffiths |
| 8 | Conservations Laws, Symmetries, Brief Overview of
Group Theory, Spin and Orbital Angular Momenta | Chapter 4 Griffiths |
| 9 | Parity, Charge Conservation, CP, CP Violation, CPT
| Chapter 4 Griffiths, handouts |
| 10 | Non-relativistic Bound State Systems, Schrodinger
Equation, Hydrogen Atom review | Chapter 5, Griffiths |
| 11 | Bound States, Quarkonium, QCD Potential Models |
Chapter 5 Griffiths, Scientific American Article |
| 12 | Quark Model, Meson and Baryon Masses (& a
bit on Magnetic Moments) |
Chapter 5 Griffiths |
| 13 | Lifetimes, Cross-section, Differential Cross-section,
Classical Scattering | Chapter 6 Griffihs |
| 14 | Rutherford Scattering, Fermi's Golden Rule (for decays
and for scattering), Phase Space
| Chapter 6 Griffiths |
| 15 | Lorentz Invariant Phase Space, Decay
examples Fermi's Golden Rule | Chapter 6, Griffiths |
| 16 | Scattering examples, Fermi's Golden Rule
| Chapter 6, Griffiths |
| 17 | Griffiths' Feynman Toy Model, Feynman Rules | Chapter
6, Griffiths |
| 18 | Feynman Rules, Schrodinger Eqn, Klein Gordon Eqn | Chapter
6 & 7, Griffiths |
| 19 | Lifetime and Scattering Examples, Dirac Equation and its
Solutions | Chapter 6 & 7, Griffiths |
| 20 | Solutions to Dirac Equation,
Feynman Rules in QED, Examples | Chapter 7, Griffiths |
| 21 | Product Rules and Trace theorems for Dirac Matrices,
Examples | Chapter 7, Griffiths |
| 22 | Electrodynamics of Quarks and Hadrons, Brief Overview of QCD
Phenomenology |
Chapter 8, Griffiths |
| 23 | Weak Interactions, Purely leptonic decays (muon decay,
setup and calculation of muon lifetime) |
Chapter 10, Griffiths |
| 24 | Weak Interactions, Heavy Quark Decay, Spectator Models |
Chapter 10, Griffiths, handouts |
| 25 | Weak Interactions, Neutrino physics, mixing, SNO & SuperK
neutrino results |
Chapter 10, Griffiths, handouts |
