Syllabus in P4H Course Guide

This series of ten lectures is the first half of the 4th year particle physics option.

Transparancies for Fundamental Forces and Particles (.ppt file)

Transparancies for Feynman Graphs (.ppt file)

Transparancies for Experimental QCD (.ppt file)

Transparancies for Accelerators and Detectors (.ppt file)

Transparancies for ElectroweakTheory (.ppt file)

Question Sheet (.doc file)

The course text-book is Martin & Shaw 'Particle Physics' 2nd edition, pub. John Wiley & Sons.

Students may also find DH Perkins 'Introduction to High energy Physics' 4th edition, pub. CUP, useful, particularly on experimental details and for the Electroweak theory section..

The web page of the course in its previous format is available here

CERN website

Explanations of the Higgs mechanism for a politician

Chris Parkes

January 2007