| Lec # | Topics | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fundamental Building Blocks and their Interactions | Q&L, Chapter 1 CP, Chapter 1 |
| 2 | Symmetries and Quarks; Discoveries of the J, Upsilon | Q&L, Chapter 2 |
| 3 | Gluons, Particle-antiparticle, Gluons inside Nucleons | Q&L, Chapter 3/5 |
| 4 | Dirac Formalism, Chirality, Helicity, Why Higgs? | Q&L, Chapter 5 |
| 5 | Local Gauge Transformation | Q&L, Chapter 5 |
| 6 | Solutions of the Dirac Equation | Q&L, Sections 12.11-13 CP, Sections 2.8-10 |
| 7 | Matrix, Decays, Cross Sections and Radiative Corrections | |
| 8 | Polarization, Propagator, Interaction Matrix, Cross Sections and Unitarity Bounds | Q&L, Chapter 6 CP, Chapter 2 |
| 9 | Unitarity Bound Violation and "New" Particles | Q&L, Section 15.6 and references there Muirhead, H. Notes on Elementary Particle Physics. 1st ed. New York, NY: Pergamon Press, 1972, section 7.5. ISBN: 9780080165509. |
| 10 | Bottom-up Approach: Unitarity Bounds, "New" Particles and their Coupling Constants | Lecture Notes for Session 10 |
| 11 | Unitarity Bounds, Higgs, its Coupling Constants and Limit on its Mass | Lecture Notes for Session 11 |
| 12 | Electro-weak Interactions | Q&L, Chapter 13 |
| 13 | Review | |
| 14 | Mid-term | |
| 15 | Discussion on Research Topics | |
| 16 | Prelude to The Standard Model (SM) | Q&L, Chapter 14 |
| 17 | Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Higgs Top-down Approach | |
| 18 | Masses and Interactions of Weak Bosons and Fermions | Q&L, Chapter 15 |
| 19 | QCD, QED and EW Corrections within SM | |
| 20 | Divergence in SM and Plausible Solutions SUSY | CP, Chapter 14 |
| 21 | Technical Color | CP, Section 12.8 |
| 22 | Reading Assignments based on Lecture Notes on SM, and Models beyond SM | |
| 23 | Presentations of Research Papers |
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Reading assignments are from lecture notes and from the course textbooks:
Q&L = Halzen, F., and A. D. Martin. Quarks & Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1984. ISBN: 9780471887416.
CP = Barger, V. D., and R. J. N. Phillips. Collider Physics. Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN: 9780201149456.