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週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
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Week 1 |
2/25 |
Introduction:
- probing structure using virtual particles
- 1952: First evidence for proton structure. The Delta(1232) |
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Week 2 |
3/03 |
electron-proton Kinematics.
How to break apart a proton: elastic vs inelastic scattering.
Introduction to the parton model. |
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Week 3 |
3/10 |
What is "inside" a proton? The Parton model.
Bjorken scaling of e-p cross section.
Evidence of quarks in the proton. |
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Week 4 |
3/17 |
Parton Structure Functions.
Experiments revealing the structure of the proton. How can we know that inside the proton there are point-like particles of fractional charge and neutral particles carrying half of the momentum of the proton? |
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Week 5 |
3/24 |
Quarks1: from mathematics to particles.
SU(2) flavour group and the up-down quarks |
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Week 6 |
3/31 |
Quarks2: the eightfold way
SU(3) group, up down and strange quarks |
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Week 7 |
4/07 |
Chiral Symmetry. SU(2)LxSU(2)R, Vector Axial-Vector and Hadronic Spectrum. |
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Week 8 |
4/14 |
Interactions in Gauge Theories: the colour gauge symmetry. |
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Week 9 |
4/21 |
Midterm Exam |
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Week 10 |
4/28 |
Quantum Chromodynamics:
Gluons, the SU(3) gauge group.
Electromagnetism versus Quantum Chromodynamics. |
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Week 11 |
5/05 |
Interactions between quarks and gluons 1. |
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Week 12 |
5/12 |
Interactions between quarks and gluons 2. |
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Week 13 |
5/19 |
Running strong coupling constant.
Colour confinement. |
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Week 14 |
5/26 |
Parton density functions. Altarelli Parisi evolution. |
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Week 15 |
6/02 |
Hadron-hadron collisions. |
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Week 16 |
6/9 |
QCD transitions: Chiral symmetry breaking, the origin of mass, mass without mass. |
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Week 17 |
6/16 |
QCD transitions 2:
more on CSB, and its relevance to Higgs mechanism. |