PH561 Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics

Assignment #5: Due Monday 04/26/04

A. Read and absorb(!) assignment (potential final exams topics...):

•  5.1, 5.2 -  Helicity, what's that? d-function, what's that?? (Don't worry about how eqn. 5.5.b is derived)
•  Skip/skim the rest of chapter 5 as time/interest warrants. FYI The Mandelstam variables I mentioned in lecture appear in 5.3.
• 6.4, 6.5, 6.7 - "Non-Abelian", what's that? "Antishielding", what's that? "Glueballs"??
•  Skip/skim the rest of chapter 6 as time/interest warrants.
• 7.1-2, 7.13-15

B. Problems from Perkins:

1. 5.4
2. 6.3 
3. 7.7

C. Brownie points: problem 7.2