Spring 2025 (Finished)
related course: Num101
Topics
- Particle Physics for Babies
- The Standard Model of particle physics
- Gauge Theory: symmetry, charge and boson exchange
notes: intro
- Advanced Quantum Mechanics
- Angular Momenta
- Time Delay
- Fermi Golden Rule
notes: TimeDelay
notes: Scattering
notes: Fermi Golden Rule
- Quantum Fields
- scalar, fermions, and gauge fields
- important amplitudes in QED: discovery of quarks
- Bogoliubov transform and Quasi Particles
notes: Basic Fields
notes: Differential Forms
notes: QFT amplitudes
- Spectrum of Hadrons: SU(3) Flavor Symmetry and the Eight-Fold Way
- flavor symmetry
- color symmetry
- Constituent Quark Model
notes: Flavor Symmetry
- Vacuum Polarization of Photon
notes: polarization
notes: running copuling
- regularization and renormalization
- running coupling and renormalization group
- Uehling Potential
- Scattering and Unitarity
- kinematics and phase spaces
- optical theorem
- Topics in Nuclear Physics
- Liquid Drop Model
- Fermi Gas Model
- Relativistic Mean Field
- Introduction to Functional Integrals (optional)
notes: SDE
- 3 ways to QFT
- Z, W, and Gamma
- Master Equation for Symmetries
- Finite Temperature Field Theory (optional)
- free bosons and fermions
- imaginary time formalism
Healthy Food for Thoughts / Project Ideas
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How to Renormalize the Schroedinger Equation (peak of human civilization!)