Particle Physics
Particle physics is the study of the fundamental interactions and elementary particles which make up our universe at its most basic level.
Lesson notes
In lessons we shall discuss any questions and go through examples mainly. For each lesson, you must either
- hand in a reading memo on paper at the beginning of the lesson, or
- complete an online reading memo via the MIT interface by 9.30 p.m. the evening before the lesson.
- Atomic Structure and Stability | reading memo
- Particles, antiparticles and photons | reading memo
- Annihilation and pair production | reading memo
- The four forces | reading memo
- Fundamental particles | reading memo
- Hadrons | reading memo
- Particle interactions | reading memo
- Feynman diagrams | reading memo
Homework questions
Tests and exam-style questions
Other interesting stuff
- YouTube: BBC Horizon (1964) "Strangeness -3"
- YouTube: Rolling in the Higgs (Adele Parody)
- Isao Hashimoto's "1945-1998" (Nuclear timelapse)
- Confinement of antihydrogen for 1000 s
- Could baryons become cubic under pressure?
- More about Feynman's contributions to physics
- LaTeX style sheet for particle notes
