Chapter 14 - Modern Physics
Fundamental Particles

The Standard Model

  • Leptons and quarks
  • Mesons and baryons from quarks

    • Baryon mass formulae

  • Isospin and hypercharge
  • Baryon terms
  • Perturbation
  • Intermediate coupling
  • J=1/2 octet
  • Model
  • J=3/2 decuplet
  • Gell-Mann Okuba formula
  • Three spectroscopies

    • Assignment in Chapter 14 of Krane's textbook:   Questions 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16 (Due date: 2006).

    K meson regeneration

  • Production and decay processes
  • Quantum beats

    • Measurements

  • Don Glaser
  • Design for first H bubble chamber
  • Spark chamber
  • Post-triggered detection
  • Tracks
  • Optical detection
  • Mass spectrum
  • Production and decay
  • Simultaneous or two step
  • Three body decays
  • Two step decay
  • Phase space plots
  • Definition of Dalitz plot
  • Sample Dalitz plot
  • Coalpile from Berkeley
  • Poem
  • Lifetime measurements
  • Spin determination
  • Sigma 0
  • Review of Particle Properties, 2004

    • Quantum chromodynamics and the Standard Model

  • The J-Psi particle
  • Sam Ting
  • PRL articles
  • Ting interview
  • Applet
  • The standard model
  • Fermilab

    Chap.1   Chap.2   Chap.3   Bridge A   Chap.4   Bridge B   Chap.5/7

    Chapter 6/8
    Chapter 9
    Chapter 10
    Chapter 11
    Chapter 12
    Appendix





    Background

    Four-Fermion interactions

  • List of interactions

    • Relativistic Kinematics

  • 2-body problem
  • Beam-target kinematics
  • Relativistic kinematics
  • CM kinetic energies
  • CM momentum
  • CM transformation
  • Tranformation parameters
  • 3-body problem
  • Simultaneous vs sequential
  • Momentum product form
  • Individual momenta
  • Phase space