Fall 2002

Final Exam solutions posted.

KamLAND first result released. A significant deficit in reactor anti-neutrinos found, excluding all other oscillation solutions to the solar neutrino problem than the "Large Mixing Angle" solution. The paper can be obtained from here.

2002 Nobel Prize in Physics Announced. Raymond Davis and Masatoshi Koshiba, pioneers in underground neutrino experiments. We will discuss these works later in the course, but you can read ahead.

DASI experiment, an interferometry experiment that studies cosmic-microwave background, announced the first measurement of E-mode polarization. Bill Holzapfel in our Department is the major collaborator in this experiment.

ATHENA experiment at CERN produced thousands of anti-hydrogen, and they intend to compare the atomic spectra to the ordinary hydrogen. See their web site for more details.

Lectures: Tu Th 11-1230, 343 LECONTE

Discussion section: Tu 1-2, 335 LECONTE, Th 3-4, 337 LECONTE

Homeworks: bi-weekly, due Friday 4pm

Exams: one Midterm (Oct 31, in class), one Final

E-mail: murayama@physics.berkeley.edu

Phone: 2-1019 (no voice machine), 486-5589 (LBNL, with voice machine)

Office: 447 Birge, 50A-5109 (LBNL)

Office Hours: Th 1:30-3:00

E-mail: dvasilyuk@yahoo.com

Phone: 2-5647

Office: 279 LeConte

Office Hours: Th 12:40-1:40 and F 2-3

137A-137B (137B may be taken concurrently)

This course introduces particle physics for seniors. I intend to introduce fundamental concepts in particle physics in a semi-historical fashion, starting from discovery of radioactivity, anti-matter, nuclear structure, hadron resonances, to theory of quarks and gluons, W/Z bosons, as summarized in the Standard Model. Then we move on to more recent topics in neutrino oscillation, unification and cosmology to the extent time allows.

• Special Relativity
• Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
• Electromagnetism
• Strong Interaction
• Weak Interaction
• Standard Model
• Neutrino Oscillation
• Unification
• Big-Bang Cosmology

• "Introduction to Elementary Particles" by David Griffiths, John Wiley & Sons (March 1987) (required).
• "Quarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics" by Francis Halzen, Alan D. Martin, John Wiley & Sons (January 1984).
• "The Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics", by Robert N. Cahn and Gerson Goldhaber, Cambridge University Press (December 2003).
• "The Story of Spin", by Shin-ichiro Tomonaga (translated by Takeshi Oka), University of Chicago Press (November 1998).

• Special Relativity
• Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
• Quantum ElectroDynamics
• Strong Interactions I
• Strong Interactions II
• More on Dirac Equation
• Weak Interactions I
• Weak Interactions II
• Standard Model
• Neutrino Physics (from colloquium at Harvard) in PDF (46MB), PowerPoint (20MB), and html.
• Lectures on Neutrino Physics (at University of pisa) in PowerPoint files in this directory
• Grand Unification and Supersymmetry in PDF (5.4MB), PowerPoint (460KB), and html.
• Cosmology in PDF (14.3MB), PowerPoint (2.3MB), and html.

• The Positive Electron, Carl D. Anderson, Phys. Rev. 43, 491-494 (1933).
• Note on the Nature of Cosmic Ray Particles, S. H. Neddermeyer and C. D. Anderson, Phys. Rev., 51, 884 (1937).

• HW #1 and solution.
• HW #2 and solution.
• HW #3 and solution.
• HW #4 and solution.
• Midterm Exam and solution.
• HW #5 and solution.
• HW #6 and solution.
• Final Exam and solution.

• Particle Data Group
• Particle Adventure. Wonderful interactive web-based tutorial on particle physics for general audience.

• Notes on Classical Mechanics (prepared for 221A students)
• Notes on Nuclear Physics (prepared for 221B students)