Sumários

Exercises Chapters 3 and 4

10 Março 2017, 14:30 José Maneira

Exercises from Chapters 3 and 4 of Modern Particle Physics.
Fermi's golden rule: cross sections and decay rates
Dirac Equation, gamma matrices.


Interaction by particle exchange, QED

9 Março 2017, 09:00 José Maneira

Interaction by particle exchange. Time-ordering, propagator, virtual particles.
Feynman rules for QED. Example of QED calculation.


Exercises Chapter 2 and 3

3 Março 2017, 14:30 José Maneira

Exercises from Chapters 2 and 3 of Modern Particle Physics.
Refressher on relativity and QM.
Fermi's golden rule: cross sections and decay rates


Dirac equation

2 Março 2017, 09:00 José Maneira

Dirac equation and its solutions.
States of particles/antiparticles, spin and helicity.


Continuing Introduction. Fermi's Golden Rule

23 Fevereiro 2017, 10:00 José Maneira

Main aspects of collider experiments.
Notation on relativity. Mandelstam variables. Dirac Delta function.

Derivation of the Dirac Delta function.
Particle Decays.