Teaching Particle Physics Online

By Peter Siegel (Cal Poly Pomona)

Illuminate-Live Software Course Topics Computer Based Problems

Online Software

Elluminate-Live Software

Students downloaded lecture notes of what I planned to write on the classroom blackboard (8-10 pages)

Live lecture with a web cam. 4ft by 5ft of classroom blackboard space seen by the cam.

Students asked questions and comments via chat room (real time)

Problem 6. Write a computer program that will find the best fit to the electron-positron cross section data at the Z0 resonance (from the thesis

Possible Topics for online course(s)

Relativistic Kinematics

SU(2) coupling: Isospin

Symmetry and Conservation Laws: Parity, CP, K oscillations

Dirac Equation: Free Particle Solutions

Time Dependent Perturbation – Feynman Diagrams

Standard Model for Electro-Weak Interactions (Tree Diagrams)

Programming: Linux commands, Root

Root: Graphing, Tminuit, Random Numbers

Particle Detectors

Gauge Symmetries

Bound States and Resonances

Sample Computer Problem

Sample Computer Problem

Sample Computer Problem

Sample Computer Problem

Sample Computer Problem

Sample Computer Problem