| 1/20 | 1 | Syllabus & Introduction; chapters 1.1 through 1.3 |
| 1/22 | 2 | Units in particle physics; Special relativity through chapter 2.1.1 |
| 1/27 | - | ❄ Snow Day ❄ |
| 1/29 | 3 | Special relativity up to chapter 2.1.3 |
| 2/3 | 4 | Four-momentum in a particle decay chapter 2.1.3 through middle of chapter 2.2.1 (Klein-Gordon) |
| 2/5 | 5 | Relativistic wave equations: Klein-Gordon (Spin-0) in Lagrange formalism + derivation of Dirac eq. (Spin 1/2); completing chapter 2 |
| 2/10 | 6 | Group theory: Chapter 3 up to chapter 3.2.3 |
| 2/12 | 7 | Completing group theory |
| 2/17 | 8 | Cross-sections and Fermi's golden rule, Chapter 4 up to 4.3 |
| 2/19 | 9 | Feynman diagrams, toward completing chapter 4 |
| 2/24 | 10 | Particle collider experiment, chapter 5 through 5.4; (completing 5) |
| 2/26 | 11 | Feynman diagram summary of chapter 4.3.3, completing chapter 4; QED in e+e- collisions, chapter 6 up to example 6.1 |
| 3/3 | 12 | Continuing chapter 6; |
| 3/5 | 13 | Completing chapter 6: inclusive cross-sections, e+e- to hadrons, R-ratio, evidence for fractional charge, spin, color |
| 3/10 | 14 | Chapter 7.1.1 electron-quark scattering; deeply inelastic scattering up to 7.2.1 (pg. 179) |
| 3/12 | | **Midterm presentations ** |
| 3/17 | | 🌸 spring break 🌸 |
| 3/19 | | 🌸 spring break 🌸 |
| 3/24 | 15 | Chapter 7 up to 7.3.5 |
| 3/26 | 16 | Completing chapter 7, tests of spin 1 gluon; Chapter 8 up to 8.2 |
| 3/31 | 17 | Chapter 8.2, non-abelian gauge theory |
| 4/2 | 18 | Consequences of QCD, completing chapter 8 |