Masters level courses
Particle Physics 2 - Quantum Chromo-Dynamics (QCD)
- Basic information
- Lectures given in the 2nd semester of the common master program
- The lectures are given on Tuesdays and Fridays between 09:00 and 13:00 at UvA
- The course is given together with Mara Senghi Soares who focuses on the CP part
- Prerequisites
- Subatomic physics (bachelor)
- Introduction to QFT
- Particle Physics 1
- Grading scheme
- The course has significant homework that allows you to get max 1.5 bonus points
- The final grade is estimated as the maximum between the final exam and the weighted average of the final exam and the homework with 85%-15% weight, respectively.
- Usefule links
- Reading material
- Introduction
- Spin, the quark model and the colour quantum number
- Symmetries and group theory
- QCD Lagrangian (no slides available)
- Feynman rules (no slides available)
- Color factors (no slides available)
- Form factors
- Deep inelastic scattering
- Soft and collinear singularities (no slides available)
- Asymptotic freedom
- Heavy-ion physics