PHYS 470 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Course Materials

Topics to be covered in this course

Introduction and overview
Fundamental symmetries and conservation laws
Building hadrons from quarks
Decay rate and cross Sections
Dirac equation
Quantum electrodynamics
Structure of the nucleons and the parton model
Weak interactions
The Standard Model
Neutrino oscillations

Textbooks

The required textbook for this course is:

David Griffiths, Introduction to Elementary Particles (Second Edition)

The highly recommended book:

Mark Thomson, Modern Particle Physics

Other reference books of interest

Perkins, Introduction to High Energy Physics
Aitchison and Hey, Gauge Theories in Particle Physics
Henley and Garcia, Subatomic Physics
Krane, Introductory Nuclear Physics