Hadronic Physics: from Quarks to Nuclei

Date: September 6 - December 6, 2006
Time: Mondays and Wednesdays, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Jefferson Lab, ARC 231 and Cebaf Center Auditorium (see full schedule)

Graduate level lecture course on hadronic physics of particular relevance for Jefferson Lab.
The course will provide a basic grounding in the theory and phenomenology of electron
scattering and the strong interactions.

The course will be given as part of the Virginia Physics Consortium, and will be available
for credit to students from Ph. D. granting Virginia universities. Prospective students should
contact the course coordinator at their home university. It will also be open to JLab staff
and users who wish to audit the course.

Course Outline
(subject to minor modifications)

Classification of hadrons

Historical developments
[Griffiths - ch. 1]
Symmetries and conservation laws
(parity, charge-conjugation, CP, isospin, strangeness)
[Griffiths - ch. 4]
Group theory
Unitary symmetry (The Eightfold Way)
Quark model, baryon wave functions
[Close - ch. 2, 3, 4.1-3]
Color and Quantum Chromodynamics

Nonperturbative QCD

Meson spectrum
Quark models (nonrelativistic, potential)
Flux-tube model and hybrid mesons
Lattice QCD
[Thomas/Weise - ch. 6.4]
Symmetries of QCD (baryon number, flavor, chiral)
[Thomas/Weise - ch. 6.1, 7]

Electron scattering

Nucleon electromagnetic form factors
[Thomas/Weise - ch. 2.1-2;
Aitchison/Hey - ch. 3 (ch. 8 in new edition)]
Weak form factors
[Thomas/Weise - ch. 3.1-2, 3.6]
Pion form factor
Transition form factors

Partonic structure of the nucleon

Deep inelastic (e and ν) scattering
[Leader/Predazzi - ch. 12]
Scaling, parton model
Scaling violations, Q² evolution
Operator product expansion
Renormalization group equations
Running coupling, asymptotic freedom
Feynman rules (for QCD and QED)
Spin dependent structure functions

Hadronic Physics: from Quarks to Nuclei

Course Outline (subject to minor modifications)

Course Outline
(subject to minor modifications)