Particle classification

Objectives:

• Students will be familiar with the main categories of particle classification and with some additive conserved quantum numbers.

Web Material:

April 16

• Particle classification
• Particle detectors

Textbook:

• Chapters 18.1 -18.7

The Standard Models

Objectives:

• Students will be introduced to the standard model of fundamental particle interactions.

Web Material:

April 18

• The Standard Model

Textbook:

• Chapters 18.8 - 18.10

Laboratory:

• The mass of the top quark