Section 626001   (Fall 2005)

Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics

Introductory course in Modern Elementary Particle Physics is intended
to those preparing for the research in nuclear and particle physics fields. 
Designed mainly for the experimentalists, it might be also useful for the
theoretical physics students. Presently most of experimentally observed facts  
in particle and high-energy physics are well described by the "Standard Model" 
theory. This Standard Model will be discussed in the course together with 
growing experimental evidence and theoretical ideas  for the new physics 
beyond the SM. Second part of the course, P627 to be taught in Spring 2006, 
will be devoted to the experimental and computational methoods in nuclear 
and particle physics 

Recommended textbooks:

• Gordon Kane, "Modern Elementary Particle Physics" (Updated Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1993) to find the book click here
• Particle Data Group: "Review of Particle Physics", Physics Letters B 592 (2004)  1-1109  [PDG]

Additional useful textbooks:

• Francis Halzen and Alan D. Martin, "Quarks and Leptons", An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics, (JohnWiley & Sons, 1984)
• Donald H. Perkins, "Introduction to HEP", 4th edition (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
• Chris Quigg, "Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions", Frontiers in Physics.
• Lev B. Okun, " Leptons and Quarks" (North-Holland Publishing Co., 1982)
• Lev B. Okun, " Particle Physics, The Quest for the Substance of Substance" (Harwood Academic Publishers, 1985)
• L. Landau and M. Lifshitz: Course of Theoretical Physics: Mechanics(1), Field Theory(2), Quantum Mechanics(3), Relativistic Quantum Field Theory(4).

Many other books:

• Abraham Seiden, "Particle Physics. A Comprehensive Introduction", Addison Wesley,  2005
  
• W.N. Cottingham and D.A. Greenwood, " An Introduction to the Standard Model", Cambridge University Press, 1998
• Byron P. Roe, "Particle Physics at the New Milleeium",  Springer, 1996
• F. Boehm and P. Vogel, "Physics of Massive Neutrinos", Cambridge University Press, 1992 (Second Edition)
• B. Kayser et al., The Physics of Massive Neutrinos", World Scientific, 1989
• and many more ...
  

Internet resources:

• http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/hep/
• http://www.lib.utk.edu/
  
• http://pdg.lbl.gov
• Particle Physics Conferences
  
• http://superstringtheory.com/
  
• Fermilab Academic Lectures
• Appendix to quantum field theory
  
• http://www.fnal.gov/, http://www.slac.stanford.edu/, http://www.bnl.gov/, http://www.lbl.gov/
• http://www.cern.ch/, http://www.desy.de/, http://www.kek.jp, http://www.jinr.ru
  
• http://www-spires.slac.stanford.edu/FIND/spires.html
• http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/hep/
• http://www.hep.net/
• http://public.web.cern.ch/public/
• http://xxx.lanl.gov/
• Neutrino Unbound
• The Neutrino Oscillation Industry
  
• Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Newsletters
• National Nuclear Data Center
• The Isotopes Project Home Page
• Particles at Georgia State
• Units of Measutrements
  

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