SS 17 Theoretical Particle Physics
Time & Place
Tuesdays, 10:00--11:30 und
Thursdays, 8:30--10:00.
Note: No lecture on July 6th, instead double lecture 8:30-11:30 on July 11th.
Handbibliothek PH 3343
Contents
Notes from 2012. (Note: Occasional errors will only be corrected in the current notes.)
- Warmup: cross sections, decay rates, some processes in quantum electrodynamics
- Nonabelian gauge theory & spontaneous symmetry breaking (brief review of material taught in QFT II in more detail), the Standard Model of Particle Physics
- Deep inelastic scattering & structure of the nucleon
- The W, Z and Higgs bosons
- Quarks, hadrons and flavour
- Neutrinos
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Literature
I will revise and adapt the notes from the courses of SS 13, WS 12/13. In addition, I recommend
- Donoghue, Golowich, Holstein, Dynamics of The Standard Model
- Schwartz, Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model
- Ellis, Stirling, Webber, QCD and Collider Physics
- Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields, vols. I & II
Tutorium
Coordinators: Marco Drewes, Dario Gueter, Juraj Klaric
There will be one group on Monday, 12pm, in the Handbibliothek.