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578A - Selected Topics in Theoretical Physics -- Fall 2013
MW 1:00-2:20pm, PAB B109
Instructor: Silas Beane
Room PAB B457, Phone 206-543-3256
email: silas@uw.edu
Office hours: TBD
Homework: once per week
Grading: C/NC
Subject Matter:
1. Large-N methods
(a) Gross-Neveu model
(b) Large-Nc limit of QCD
(c) Large-Nc phenomenology: mesons and glueballs
(d) Skyrme model of baryons
(e) Large-Nc phenomenology: baryons and nuclei
(f) 't Hooft model
(g) Large-Nc master field
2. Introduction to low-x physics
(a) DIS and the parton model
(b) DGLAP evolution
(c) High-energy scattering
(d) BFKL equation
(e) Parton saturation
Useful References for Large N:
Aspects of Symmetry, Sydney Coleman
Large N QCD, Aneesh Manohar
Phenomenology of Large-N QCD, Richard Lebed
Dynamics of the Standard Model, Donoghue, Golowich and Holstein
Large N Baryons, Elizabeth Jenkins
The Skyrme Model, Zahed and Brown
Models of the Nucleon, Rajat Bhaduri
Useful References for Low-x:
Quantum Chromodynamics at High Energy, Kovchegov and Levin
An Introduction to Spin-dependent Deep Inelastic Scattering, Aneesh Manohar
Spin, Twist and Hadron Structure in Deep Inelastic Processes, Robert Jaffe
The Quantum Theory of Fields, Volume II, Steven Weinberg
An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Peskin and Schroeder