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Instructor: Prof. Haiyan Gao

• Office: FFSC 2313
• Phone: 660-2622
• Email: gao@phy.duke.edu
• Office hours: Tuesday: 3:00 to 5:00 pm or by appointment

General Course Information:

• Syllabus
• Academic Integrity and Grading Policy
• Problem Sets

Class Meetings:

• Time: Monday/Wednesday 10:05 to 11:20
• Location: Physics 299 (Mondays) and Physics 298 (Wednesdays)
• Website: http://www.tunl.duke.edu/~mep/phy305

Lecture Notes:

• Compton Scattering from Nucleon
• Weak Interaction
• Weak form factors and parity-violating electron scattering
• UCNA Experiment
• Neutrino oscillation and double beta decay
• Neutral Kaon Decay and CP Violation

Recommended reading:

• Weak Interactions of Leptons and Quarks , by Commins and P. Bucksbaum
• An Introduction to Quarks and Partons, by F.E. Close
• Relativistic Quantum Mechanics, by J.D. Drell and S. Bjorken
• Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak and Electromagnetic interaction, by C. Quigg
• Gauge Theories of the Weak Interactions, by W. Greiner and B. Mueller