Strong Interactions at High Energy

880J20 Spring 2005

Office: M2042 Physics Research Bldg

Office Hours: Fridays 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Course Meets: Mondays Wednesdays 10:30 am - 12:18 pm, Smith 1186

*** First Class Meets March 28th, 2005 ***

Topics:

• Parton Model, DGLAP Evolution Equation
• McLerran-Venugopalan Model, Classical Fields in QCD
• BFKL Evolution, Nonlinear JIMWLK and BK Equations
• Unitarity and Saturation
• Deep Inelastic Scattering and Heavy Ion Collisions
• Diffraction

Course Announcement

Recommended Reading:

• J.R.Forshaw, D.A.Ross - Quantum Chromodynamics and the Pomeron, (Cambridge Lecture Notes in Physics)
• J. Jalilian-Marian, Yu. K. - Saturation Physics and Deuteron-Gold Collisions at RHIC, hep-ph/0505052

Lecture Notes:

(Password protected, please write to me if you are interested in accessing them.)

• Week 1: Monday Wednesday
• Week 2: Monday Wednesday
• Week 3: Monday Wednesday
• Week 4: Monday Wednesday
• Week 5: Monday Wednesday
• Week 6: Monday Wednesday
• Week 7: Monday Wednesday
• Week 8: Monday Wednesday
• Week 9: Monday Wednesday
• Week 10: Monday - Memorial Day, no class Wednesday

Homework Assignments:

• HW 1 -- Solution 1
• HW 2 -- Solution 2
• HW 3 -- Solution 3
• HW 4 -- Solution 4

Exams: Here is the Final

You can find you grades on the Registrar's website. Here's the solution of the final.