Topics covered in 245A

Here is a list of topics for the quarter. We may not get to all of
these, and we may add a few. Recall that this is intended to be a survey
course and that it is not supposed to use a significant amount of field
theory (a few tree level Feynman diagrams at the most). As you can see
from this list, there are many things to cover. Thus it will not be
possible to go into any of them in great depth.

1. introduction
2. overview
3. relativistic kinematics in collisions and decays
   energy momentum conservation
   particle detectors
4. S-matrix
   cross sections
   unitarity
   optical theorem
5. helicity formalism
   angular momentum decomposition
   partial wave unitarity
6. angular momentum and angular distributions
7. parity and time reversal
8. C
   I-spin
   baryon number
   strangeness
   etc.
9. particle discovery and resonances   
10. photon-proton scattering
    eP elastic scattering
    elastic form factors
11. inelastic eP scattering
    structure functions
    bj scaling
12. parton model
    parton distribution functions
    sum rules
13. e+e- annihilation
    R
    color
    jets
14. e+e- resonances
    vector mesons
    J/\psi
    charmed hadrons
    \upsilon
15. quark model: mesons
    vector and pseudoscalar nonets
    color hyperfine splittings
16. quark model: baryons
    octet and decuplet baryons
    mass splittings
17. hadron-hadron interactions
    total cross section
    elastic differential cross section
    diffractive dissociation
18. more hadron-hadron
    multiparticle production
    jets
19. overview of open questions in the standard model
    beyond the standard model