Part III Particle Physics

Major Option

Dr Lester

Michaelmas 2025

Lecture Slides / Handouts

Slides: as lectured rather than printed. Online-only, with appendices. Updated with corrections where stated in the list below.

Slides: as printed at the start of term, not as lectured. Never corrected!.

Supplements to Lecture Slides / Handouts

Non-examinable Appendices (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 2025

Past tripos papers (including worked solutions)

Extra Part III Project on Electron Charge mis-ID

The bullet points of section 2 of this technical document may give an idea of what a student would do.

Clarifications and Corrections to printed version of the 2025 handout:

Demonstrating/Supervision arrangements for 2025:

Supervision instructions here.

Ephemera