Additional resources¶

To be filled during the semester.

Lecture 22/23¶

• Who ate the Higgs?
• The role of symmetry in fundamental physics, D. Gross

Lecture 13¶

• Summary of the history of the discovery of the gluon at DESY in 1979

Research papers:

• A high statistics measurement of the proton structure functions $F_2(x, Q^2)$ and $R$ from deep inelastic muon scattering at high $Q^2$ (SLAC, 1989)
• Evidence for a spin-1 gluon in three-jet events (measurement at PETRA/DESY, 1980)
• Measurement of three-jet distributions sensitive to the gluon spin in $e^+ e^−$ annihilations at $\sqrt{s}=91$ GeV (measurement at LEP/CERN, 1991)

Lecture 11¶

• Measurement of 𝛼𝑠 from hadron jets in 𝑒+𝑒− annihilation at √𝑠 of 29 GeV
• New results on the reaction 𝑒+𝑒−→𝜇+𝜇− at √s =29 GeV
• R ratio measurements in PDG

Lecture 9¶

• PDG reviews
• How ATLAS detects particles (video)
• ATLAS.cern
• CMS.cern

Lecture 6¶

• Wigner's "Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences"
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_of_Mathematics_in_the_Natural_Sciences

Lecture 4¶

• Representation theory of the Lorentz group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation_theory_of_the_Lorentz_group
• Covariant formulation of classical electromagnetism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covariant_formulation_of_classical_electromagnetism
• Spinors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_spinor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bispinor
• Schrödinger equation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation
• Schrödinger equation for spin 1/2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_equation
• Nobel prize for cosmic rays and positron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_David_Anderson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Francis_Hess

Lecture 1¶

• Particle data group (PDG) (You can order a booklet for free!)