Physics 145: Particle Physics

Lecture 7
Being Systematic
Handouts
New homework due next Friday
Sections next week
Jeff 353
Summary
Missing Energy
The Strong Interaction
Mesons and Leptons
Strange Particles
The Hadron Zoo

Were in trouble
Were In Trouble
Theres too much going on here
Time to retrench, and go about it all carefully

The story of particles in about 1960 was simply one

of overwhelming confusion

Take our time and do it right

Cross Sections
Bound states
Scattering
Decays
Plan for Next Few Days
Feynman Diagrams, and the Standard Model
in One Slide

Lifetimes and Fermis Golden Rule

Cross Sections

Bound States

Relativistic Kinematics