Week 8

Session 1

Pre-class videos 30.39

Classification of SU(3) representations, accessible version 17.57
Decomposing SU(3) representations, accessible version 12.42

Pre-class exercises

Exercise:

Find the weight diagrams of Gamma_{3, 0} and Gamma_{3, 1}.

Exercise:

Decompose C 3 tensor C 3 into irreducible subrepresentations.

Session 2

Pre-class videos 28.07

The quark model, accessible version 14.41
Duals, accessible version 13.26

Pre-class exercises

Exercise:

Find the weight diagram of C 3 tensor (C 3 dual) and verify that it decomposes as Gamma_{1, 1} direct sum C as claimed.

Optional extras

Strangeness minus 3 - a BBC Horizon documentary about the prediction and discovery of the Omega minus particle. Featuring interviews and discussion with Gell-Mann, Ne'eman and Feynman.