Physics 662, Winter 2018
Elementary Particle Phenomenology

• Instructor: Chris Potter
• Contact: ctp@uoregon.edu
• Office: 317 Willamette Hall
• Office Hours: TH 13:00-13:50 or by appointment
• Classroom: 147 Willamette Hall
• Class Hours: MW 12:00-13:50

Course Material

• Syllabus
• Homework 1
• Homework 2
• Midterm
• Homework 3
• Homework 4
• Final Exam

Lecture Topics

• Week 1
• Lecture 1: Inelastic Scattering: Electrons and Neutrinos on Protons
• Lecture 2: Electroweak Interactions and Quark Mixing
• Week 2
• [MLK Day]
• Lecture 3: C, P, T, CP and CPT Symmetries
• Week 3
• Lecture 4: Electroweak Unification: The W and Z
• Lecture 5: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics: Fermions and Bosons
• Week 4
• Lecture 6: Local Gauge Invariance: Global and Local
• Lecture 7: Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
• Week 5
• Lecture 8: The Higgs Mechanism: Mass for the W and Z
• [Midterm Exam]
• Week 6
• Lecture 9: SM Higgs Phenomenology at Colliders: Production
• Lecture 10: SM Higgs Phenomenology at Colliders: Decay
• Week 7
• Lecture 11: Accelerators: Principles
• Lecture 12: Accelerators: Historical Colliders [Slides]
• Week 8
• Lecture 13: Particle Interactions in Matter
• Lecture 14: Detectors: Tracking, Calorimetry, Vertexing
• Week 9
• Lecture 15: Beyond the SM: GUTs, Proton Decay, Majorana Neutrinos
• Lecture 16: Beyond the SM: Supersymmetry
• Week 10
• Lecture 17: Current LHC Higgs Boson Measurements Slides
• Lecture 18: Current LHC Supersymmetry Constraints Slides