Part III Particle Physics

Major Option

Dr Lester

Michaelmas 2024

Lecture Slides / Handouts

Slides: one per page (no margins, online-only, with appendices, not printed -- updated with corrections where stated in the list below).

Slides: one per page (no margins, online-only, without appendices, not printed -- not altered since 11th October 2024).
Slides: two per page (as printed at the start of term, with annotation margins -- not altered since 11th October 2024).

Supplements to Lecture Slides / Handouts

Non-examinable Appendices (no margins, online-only not printed).
Non-examinable propagator supplement to handout 3.
Hand sketched notes on SU(2) vs SU(3) comparison, and general SU(3) multiplets. See also the Particle Data Group's professional printed summary of SU(n) multiplet properties.

Examples sheet 2024

Past tripos papers (including worked solutions)

Clarifications and Corrections to public versions of the 2024 handout:

Demonstrating/Supervision arrangements for 2024

Thank you for all signing up on the TIS. 54 signed up. On the basis of those numbers the demonstrators have created this doodle poll to assign students to slots. In the event of issues with the supervisions, contact the lead demonstrator in the first instance (Tom Long -- TL565).

The demonstrators ask that you use the poll as follows:

Please select ONE/TWO time slots which are the most convenient for you. We plan to have six students per supervision, so no more than six people will be allocated to a time slot. Supervisions will take place on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays (three on each day). The first supervisions will take place in the week starting Monday 28th of October. NOTE: although this poll has specific dates, this will be your supervision time for the rest of the term. Please sign with your FIRST NAME - FAMILY NAME - (CRSid), for example John Doe (jd123).

Books

There is one book with a notable connection to this course: "Modern Particle Physics" by Prof Mark Thomson of The Cavendish. I draw your attention to this book as Prof Thomson lectured this very course in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 (before I took over in 2012). He revised the course substantially over that time, and the course you see now is substantially the same as it was when he left it. His book was his attempt to turn the course into a publication, and as such, there ought not to be a book more closely related to this course than it.

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