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Textbook: Lecture notes distributed instead of an official text. You may want to look at one or more of the following books: "Quarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics" by F. Halzen and A.D. Martin; "An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory" by M.E. Peskin and D.V. Schroeder; "Collider Physics" by V.D. Barger, R.J.N. Phillips, "Dynamics of the Standard Model" by J.F. Donoghue, E. Golowich, B.R. Holstein. However, I will not closely follow any of these books.
Grading: Based 100% on homework sets, assigned approximately weekly.
Graduate catalog description: Advanced topics in the standard model of quarks, leptons, gauge bosons and their fundamental interactions. Particle production and decay phenomenology.
Syllabus: in pdf or postscript form.
The lecture notes will be made available to registered students as hard copy. Meanwhile, you can find them here in pdf or postscript form.
Homework Set 1 (due January 23, 2008) in pdf or postscript form.
Homework Set 2 (due January 30, 2008) in pdf or postscript form.
Homework Set 3 (due February 6, 2008) in pdf or postscript form.
Homework Set 4 (due February 15, 2008) in pdf or postscript form.
Homework Set 5 (due March 7, 2008) in pdf or postscript form.
Homework Set 6 (due March 24, 2008) in pdf or postscript form.
Homework Set 7 (due April 2, 2008) in pdf or postscript form.
Homework Set 8 (due April 9, 2008) in pdf or postscript form.
Homework Set 9 (due April 16, 2008) in pdf or postscript form.
Homework Set 10 (due April 25, 2008) in pdf or postscript form.
Homework Set 11 (due May 5, 2008) in pdf or postscript form.