8.701  Intro: Nuclear & Particle Phys

gradebook

I've collected material from studies 1-2, and am in the process of grading them. For the moment I've entered a "1" for every assignment in my collection. If you have sent me something that isn't acknowledged, please send it again. Also in the unlikely case that you haven't submitted anything, but see a "1", let me know!

Announced on 19 November 2013  12:18  p.m. by Frank Wilczek

majorana-ism and symmetry breaking

There are three recent additions to the materials:
Majorana-ism*: about Majorana fermions, Majorana neutrinos, ... , + an "appendix" about exciting related ideas in quantum circuitry
Symmetry breaking, general*: the general concepts of global and local symmetry breaking, illustrated in the simplest possible models
Symmetry breaking, electroweak*: how the "Higgs mechanism" works in the gauge + Higgs sector of SU(2)xU(1)

*Highly recommended

Announced on 19 November 2013  11:48  a.m. by Frank Wilczek

stellar website

We now have a stellar website, https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/8/fa13/8.701/index.html

Announced on 19 November 2013  11:44  a.m. by Frank Wilczek