News

• I collected e-mail addresses of those interested in examples classes on Monday 26 Jan. Please e-mail me if you didn't sign the sheet but want to be sent information about examples classes.
• Examples sheet 1 distributed in lecture 26 Jan.
• Examples sheet 2 distributed in lecture 9 Feb.
• Examples sheet 3 distributed in lecture 23 Feb.
• Examples sheet 4 distributed in lecture 6 Mar.

Course Materials Online

• My lecture notes (in prep) and example sheets and a few journal articles

• Course information distributed in first lecture
• Prof Osborn's lecture notes from previous years

Online resources

• Prof Tong's QFT lecture notes
• Particle Data Group Wallchart, available from The Particle Adventure
• Review of Particle Physics by the Particle Data Group
• CKMfitter, UTfit, Lattice Averages and FLAG for flavor physics
• The Particle Zoo
• Lab periodicals: CERN Courier, symmetry Magazine
• Blogs: Cosmic Variance, Tommaso Dorigo, Alexey Petrov, Résonaances, Matt Strassler and finally the infamous Not Even Wrong

Bibliography

1. Peskin and Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (Addison-Wesley, 1995). A little bit of everything, usually at a good level for this course.
2. Aitchison and Hey, Gauge Theories in Particle Physics
3. Georgi, Weak Interactions (Benjamin/Cummings, 1984)
4. Manohar and Wise, Heavy Quark Physics (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000) Introduction to heavy quark effective theory.
5. Donoghue, Golowich, and Holstein, Dynamics of the Standard Model (Cambridge Univ. Press) Goes beyond the course material. Good coverage of effective theories of low energy strong and weak physics.
6. Branco, Lavoura, and Silva, CP Violation (Oxford Univ. Press, 1999) More than you want to know, probably.
7. Halzen and Martin, Quarks & Leptons (Wiley, 1984) Particle physics book which assumes no background in field theory. Helpful for physics arguments and explanations.
8. Close, The Infinity Puzzle, (Oxford Univ. Press, 2011) Popular science book with historical details on the Higgs mechanism.