Schedule

Course Schedule (tentative)

Thursdays at 10am East Coast USA (4pm Central Europe)
Each lectures takes 1h 30min hours approx.

February 3, Alessandro Pilloni
Scope of the course: What is scattering, basic S-matrix principles, natural units
February 10, Miguel Albaladejo
Lippmann-Schwinger equation, partial waves
February 17, Adam Szczepaniak
QFT vs Schrodinger equation: fields, particles and interactions. QM review, fields vs particles
February 24, Adam Szczepaniak
Examples: Delta-shell, Feshbach resonances

March 3, Alessandro Pilloni
Introduction to Hadrons and strong interactions phenomenology : quark model classification of hadrons
March 10, Mikhail Mikhasenko
Lorentz symmetry, single particle states, Wigner rotation, properties of single particle states Covariant vs. non-covariant representation, Wigner rotation, polarization vectors and Dirac spinors. Two particle states: LS vs helicity coupling
March 17, Vincent Mathieu
Relativistic scattering amplitude, production and decays, Experimental observables: phase space, decay rates and cross sections focusing on 1->2, 1->3 and 2->2 processes
March 24, Mikhail Mikhasenko
Complex integration, dispersion relations, Riemann sheets, singularities in scattering amplitudes & their interpretation (bound state, resonance, …)
March 31, Sergi Gonzalez-Solis
Unitarity of the S-matrix for 2->2 scattering, optical theorem, partial waves, low-energy applications

April 7, Miguel Albaladejo
Properties of resonances, exotic resonances/hadrons, effective range expansion, bound states, resonances, virtual states, Weinberg's criterion, the deuteron
April 14, César Fernández-Ramírez
Hadron phenomenology
April 21, Vincent Mathieu
Hadron interactions at high energies: Froissart limit and role of the black disc model
April 28, Vincent Mathieu
Introduction to Regge theory: Role of t-channel partial waves and t-channel unitarity, Regge poles and their role in high energy scattering