TEaching
PHY397K - NUCLEAR PHYSICS
Spring 2015, Unique numbers: 57115
RLM 5.116, TTH 12:30 - 2:00 pm
Article: First few microseconds by M. Riordan and W. Zajc
scientificamerican0506-34A.pdf
Rapidity write-up: (from Simon student in class)
Alice Experiment wikipedia page
Homework 1:
1.)Install root software on your computer
https://root.cern.ch/drupal/
2.) Calculate mass of mother particle from decay daughters
Units for momentum in GeV/c
decay particle 1 = Pion , decay particle 2 = Pion
px part1 -0.645309 px part2 -1.43542
py part1 1.03136 py part2 3.51513
pz part1 4.29267 pz part2 13.8416
decay particle 1 = Proton , decay particle 2 = Pion
px part1 -1.76698 px part2 -0.313754
py part1 3.64028 py part2 0.906203
pz part1 4.77863 pz part2 1.09737
3.) http://pdg.lbl.gov/ (particle physics booklet)
(can order it for free)
Lecture notes: relativistic observables notes.pdf
Homework 2: (Due day Tuesday March 2nd)
100 pions: (50 positive and 50 negative pions) tracks.txt tracks_nofirstline.txt
1.)Question: How many K0s are in this sample?
2.) plot/draw invariant mass histogram
macro: read in ascii file basic.C
class_12_detector_new.pdf (conservation laws)
new macro from 26 Feb basic_new.C
macro: fills array of charge,px,py,pz basic_new2.C
macro: linear fit, get fit value at given x value basic_new3.C
read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangeness_production
paper: PhysRevLett.48.1066.pdf erratum PhysRevLett.56.2334.pdf
class_14 canceled (ice)
Homework 3: for April 7th
List Hadrons including charm or bottom quark
1.) Quark content, mass, charge
2.) Rank them with respect to their abundance
How do you detect them ?
1.) Decay channel, branching ratio
2.) Which detector can detect or select decay particle?
Deepa:
Homework 4: due on April 27th
instructions :class_24_jet.pdf
200 Pythia events charged pions only: ascii_file.txt
class_higgs.pdf (Reading material for next week)
