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2013:
Wim Beenakker (RU): SUSY phenomenology in the era of the LHC
This course provides an introduction to the basic aspects of supersymmetric
(SUSY) phenomenology. It covers the general structure of the minimal SUSY extension
of the Standard Model, the issue of soft SUSY breaking and the translation of the
SUSY parameter spectrum from the high-energy scale where the theory is formulated
down to the energy scales of present-day LHC experiments. In the last part of the
course the experimental implications of this "low-energy" parameter spectrum and the
impact of a 125 GeV Higgs boson will be discussed. On top of that it will be sketched
how renormalization-group invariants could be used to derive information on the highenergy theory from low-energy (LHC) data.
Before the course starts the participants are recommended to refresh their Standard
Model knowledge. Reading suggestions for the lecture course:
"A Supersymmetry Primer", Stephen P. Martin, arXiv:hep-ph/9709356v6
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9709356v6
"Supersymmetry and the MSSM: An Elementary introduction"
Ian J.R. Aitchison, arXiv:hep-ph/0505105v1
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0505105v1
Renate Loll (RU): Introduction to quantum gravity
In these lectures, you will learn some basics about quantizing gravity, which is one
of the outstanding challenges of theoretical high-energy physics. Building on your
knowledge of quantum field theory (at the level of a first-year master course in the
subject), we will first study the perturbative path integral for gravity,
highlighting the differences with other field theories, and then learn about how one
may think of constructing and solving a nonperturbative gravitational path integral."
Literature: "There is not yet a good textbook on the subject, which would be suitable
for teaching a course. What comes closest, certainly in terms of giving a
comprehensive overview, is the book "Quantum Gravity" by C. Kiefer (Oxford University
Press). If you are seriously interested in the subject, this is a good investment.
You may also consult the review article "Quantum gravity: a progress report", by S.
Carlip [arxiv: gr-qc/0108040], or the more recent "How far are we from the quantum
theory of gravity?" by R. Woodard [arxiv: 0967.4238] for general background."
Kyriakos Papadodimas (RUG): Introduction to AdS/CFT and its applications
The outline of this course will be (literature to follow):
-Part 1, Background: Confinement in gauge theories, large N expansion, black holes
and the holographic bound;
-Part 2, Derivation and main statement of AdS/CFT: why quantum gravity/string theory
in AdS is equivalent to a lower dimensional gauge theory, matching of parameters and
symmetries;
-Part 3, How to compute correlation functions, relation between black holes in AdS
and quark-gluon plasma;
-Part 4, Applications to QCD, condensed matter, black holes and cosmology
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John van Opstal (Donders Institute, RU Nijmegen): Optimal control of eye movements by
the brain
A major challenge in computational neuroscience and neurobiology is to understand how
populations of noisy, broadly-tuned neurons in the brain can produce accurate goal-
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directed actions, such as the fast eye movements called saccades. In my talk I will
present a line of work from my group that links neurophysiological data from singlecell recordings in the rhesus monkey midbrain, to a neurocomputational model that
explains how this structure programs saccadic eye movements.
I will first explain why humans (and other primates) have to make saccades (we change
our gaze about three times per second, throughout the day), and which problems the
brain has to overcome in order to program and execute them efficiently.
I will then briefly describe the properties of saccades, such as their stereotyped,
nonlinear kinematics, their asymmetric velocity profiles, and the signal-dependent
noise in the system, and present a simple
cybernetic control scheme of the saccadic system. This scheme also specifies how
populations of neurons in the midbrain are thought to encode saccades within a
complex-logarithmic mapping of the sensory-motor world.
Earlier models of the saccadic system have explained the nonlinear saccade properties
by assuming passive nonlinear elements at a late stage of the neural circuitry. More
recent neuroscience theories, however, have suggested that these characteristics may
rather reflect a deliberate active strategy by the neural circuitry that is designed
to optimize the speed-accuracy trade off of saccades.Yet, how the brain could
implement such a strategy has so far remained elusive.
I here demonstrate how the midbrain is in an ideal position to implement such an
optimal strategy through the spatial-temporal dynamics of its neural population
activity. Interestingly, our model is entirely linear and surprisingly simple (only
two free parameters).
Simulations (Goossens & Van Opstal, PLoS Computational Biology, 2012) show that the
recorded activity patterns can fully account for all observed kinematic
nonlinearities and spatial trajectories of saccades.
John van Opstal
Radboud University Nijmegen
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
Dept. Biophysics - Neurophysics Unit
Heyendaalseweg 135, HG00.831
6525 AJ Nijmegen, NL
tel.: (+31) 243 614 251
fax: (+31) 243 653 450
E-mail: [email protected]
web: www.mbfys.ru.nl/~johnvo
2012:
Christophe Grojean (CERN): Electroweak symmetry breaking and physics beyond the
standard model
Summary: It is often said that the Higgs boson is at the origin of the masses of all
elementary particles. Actually, these masses are only controlled by the order
parameter that measures the breaking of electroweak symmetry while the Higgs boson is
only one possible, admittedly very appealing and simple, UV completion describing
this symmetry breaking. In these lectures, I shall describe why new physics beyond
the degrees of freedom already observed must exist and why most people believe that a
single Higgs boson is unlikely to be the only particle populating the TeV scale. I
shall argue that it might not even exist or that it might take a different form that
the one predicted by the Standard Model.
Recommended literature:
Introductory material:
- R. Barbieri "Ten lectures on the electroweak interactions"
http://arXiv.org/abs/arXiv:0706.0684
- C. Grojean "New theories for the Fermi scale"
http://arXiv.org/abs/arXiv:0910.4976
- S. Rychkov "EWSB Theory on the Eve of Higgs Boson Exclusion/Discovery"
http://arXiv.org/abs/arXiv:1109.1180
- J. Lykken "Beyond the Standard Model"
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.1676 as part of http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.4643
More technical material:
- R. Contino "The Higgs as a Composite Nambu-Goldstone Boson"
http://arXiv.org/abs/arXiv:1005.4269
- C. Grojean "New approaches to electroweak symmetry breaking" Phys.Usp. 50 (2007) 135
- T. Plehn "Lectures on LHC Physics"
http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4182
- M. Bustamante, L. Cieri, John Ellis "Beyond the Standard Model for Montaneros"
http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.4409 as part of http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.5976
Elisabetta Pallante (RUG): Effective field theories
In modern field theoretical language, a field theory can a priori be thought as an
effective field theory, meaning that it provides a good description of a class of
phenomena for a certain range of energies, distances or number of dimensions.
In these lectures we first review basic concepts of renormalization on which the
construction of any effective field theory is based: this includes dimensional
analysis, criteria for renormalizability and Wilson’s approach to the renormalization
group.
We then consider three applications relevant for today’s high energy physics: the
case of strong interactions at strong coupling, the case of electroweak interactions
from high to low energy, and the case of theories with extra dimensions
(compactification, Kaluza-Klein modes). There is a vast literature on effective field
theories and applications. A selection is provided below.
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introduction to the general concepts can be found in various textbooks:
S. Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields, Volume I, Chapter 12 and Volume II
M. Srednicki, Quantum Field Theory, Chapter 29
Peskin & Schroeder, Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Chapter 8
J. Collins, Renormalization, Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics
K. Costello, Renormalization and Effective Field Theory, AMS 2011
A selection of lectures and reviews on applications of EFT:
1. A. Pich, Effective Field Theory, arXiv:hep-ph/9806303v1 (Les Houches 1997)
2. D.B. Kaplan, Five lectures on Effective Field Theory, arXiv:nucl-th/0510023v1
3. H. Georgi, Effective Field Theory, at
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~hgeorgi/review.pdf
4. E. Pallante, The Many Uses of Chiral Effective Theories, arXiv:0803.2347v1 [hep-ph]
5. M.J. Duff, Kaluza-Klein Theory in Perspective, arXiv:hep-th/9410046v1
6. T. Gherghetta, TASI Lectures on a Holographic View of Beyond the Standard Model
Physics, arXiv:1008.2570v1 [hep-ph]
Some original articles:
1. S. Weinberg, Phenomenological Lagrangians, Physica A 96 (1979) 327-340.
2. J. Gasser, H. Leutwyler, Chiral Perturbation Theory: Expansions in the Mass of the
Strange Quark, Nucl. Phys. B250 (1985) 465.
3. J. Gasser, H. Leutwyler, Chiral Perturbation Theory to One Loop, Annals Phys. 158
(1984) 142.
4. J. Scherk, J.H. Schwarz, How to get Masses from Extra Dimensions, Nucl. Phys. B
153 (1979) 61.
Handout Problem Session EFT
Jan-Pieter van der Schaar (UvA): Quantum field theory in the early universe
In these lectures, that include 3 problem sessions, I will address the implications
of quantum field theory in cosmological spacetimes, with an emphasis on inflationary
cosmology. To begin I will introduce and analyze quantum fields on De Sitter space,
followed by a treaty on (slow-roll) inflation and the mechanism responsible for the
generation of density fluctuations. After having introduced inflation and its
properties I will outline problems with cosmological inflation from the point of view
of effective field theory. This includes the UV sensitivity of models of inflation,
but also the IR issues that arise when considering the "eternal inflation" limit.
Finally, in the context of eternal inflation and the multiverse hypothesis I will
discuss the idea of bubble nucleation in a false inflationary vacuum, reviewing the
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Coleman-De Luccia instanton calculation. I will end with an overview and remaining
challenges for future research.
Literature:
Mix of (parts of) textbooks, papers and lecture notes.
Erik Verlinde (UvA):Emergent gravity: from strings and black holes to dark energy and
dark matter
The aim of these lectures is to explain the general principles behind the emergence
of gravity, and show how these ideas can be relevant for the understanding of dark
matter and dark energy. I begin a review of D-brane dynamics and basic aspects of
open closed string duality. Next I will explain the role of Matrix quantum mechanics
in string theory and M-theory. A second ingredient is black hole thermodynamics,
which will also be briefly reviewed. The microscopic description of black holes in
string theory is then used to motivate a general scenario for the emergence of
gravity. The possible applications to cosmology, with new insights into the nature of
dark matter and dark energy is described in the last lectures.
In the first lecture we begin with a review of Polchinski's D-brane paper" Dirichlet
Branes and Ramond-Ramond charges"
http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9510017.pdf
Additional reading material will be provided during the course.
Evening speakers:
Karla de Bruin (Netherlands Forensic Institute): Physics in forensic science
In this talk, I will first give an overview of the work that is done at the NFI in
general, and then more specific on bloodstain pattern analysis. Currently, at crime
scenes the flight path of a blood drop is assumed to be a straight line. This
neglection of gravity and air resistance may lead to an error of 45 cm in height
estimation. In order to find a better model of the flight path we used high speed
imaging to study the blood drop's flight. For unambigous assignment of the trajectory
to a bloodstain, four parameters have to beknown: volume, impact velocity impact
angle and impact position. In cooepration with the soft matter group at the UvA,
methods are developed to estimate these three parameters from the bloodstain at a
crime scene. By means of these methods murder and self-defence may be distinguished.
David Norris (Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, RU Nijmegen):
The imaging of position, velocity and displacement with magnetic resonance imaging:
from the motion of sea water to tracking the fibres of the living brain.
The phenomenon of nuclear magnetic resonance has found widespread application in
almost all branches of natural science. However, its most widespread use has
undoubtedly been in bio-medical imaging. MRI systems are distinguished from
spectrometers in requiring pulsed magnetic field gradients along three orthogonal
axes. With these it is possible to spatially encode the MR signal, and also by using
specialised techniques to encode also the temporal derivatives of position as well as
displacement. In this talk I shall give a brief historical overview as to how ideas
on imaging stationary and moving spins have developed, and illustrate these with
examples from latter day practice in imaging, angiography and diffusion. To conclude
I will give a few examples as to how diffusion weighted imaging is helping us better
understand the relationship between structure and function in the brain.
2011 (Brazil):
Rosenfeld and Sorella:
http://www.sbfisica.org.br/~evjaspc/xvi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=
9&Itemid=12
Gustavo Burdman (USP-São Paulo):
generation
New strong interactions at the TeV scale: the next
Jan de Boer (Amsterdam): Topics in AdS-CFT
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Bernard de Wit (Utrecht): Lessons learned from BPS black holes
Francis Halzen (Wisconsin):
Astroparticles and cosmology
Eric Laenen (Nikhef/Amsterdam/Utrecht): All-order aspects of QCD
Lecture contents:
1. Partons, factorization and evolution
a) Factorization theorem, DGLAP evolution
b) Stochastic evolution: parton showers, event generation
2. Infrared and collinear divergences in QCD
a) Eikonal approximation
b) Power counting
c) Ward identities, factorization
3. Resummation
a) All-order matrix elements and phase space
b) Examples of resummed cross sections: Drell-Yan, Higgs, event shapes
4. Some new developments
a) Soft-collinear effective theory
b) Soft anomalous dimensions
c) Webs: diagrams and path integrals
Background literature:
- G. Sterman, Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, CUP, Ch. 12, 13 & 14
- Ellis, Stirling, Webber; QCD and Collider Physics, CUP, Chapter 5
- E. Laenen, Pramana 63
- Lecture notes at school
George Matsas (IFT/UNESP):
Chris Quigg (FERMILAB):
Low energy quantum effects in gravity
Potential discoveries at the LHC
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (Stony Brook): Renormalization and unitarity of gauge
theories
Lecture contents:
1.
BRST symmetry of gauge theories
2.
Renormalization of unbroken gauge theories
a) BRST Ward identities (Gamma-Gamma equations) for proper graphs
b) Divergences allowed by BRST symmetry
c) Divergences allowed by power counting
d) Renormalization of unbroken gauge theories
3.
Renormalization of spontaneously broken gauge theories
a) SU(2) Goldstone model
b) Spontaneously broken SU(2) Higgs model
c) Renormalizability of the SU(2) Higgs model
4.
Unitarity from the cutting rules
a) Unitarity for spin 0 and 1/2 (the largest time equation)
b) BRST Ward identities for connected graphs
c) Analysis of divergences
d) Unitarity of the renormalized theory
Background literature:
- G.'t Hooft and M. Veltman, Diagrammar
- M. Veltman, Diagrammatica, CUP.
Edward Witten (IAS - Princeton): A new look at the path integral of quantum mechanics
Opening seminar by E. Witten: String theory and the universe
2010:
W. Beenakker (RU): Introduction to SUSY phenomenology
This course provides an introduction to the basic aspects of supersymmetric (SUSY)
phenomenology. It covers the general structure of the minimal SUSY extension of the
Standard Model, the issue of soft SUSY breaking and the translation of the SUSY
parameter spectrum from the high-energy scale where the theory is formulated down to
the energy scales of present-day experiments. In the last part of the course the
experimental implications of this "low-energy" parameter spectrum will be discussed.
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Reading suggestions: before the course starts the participants are recommended to
refresh their Standard Model knowledge. At a later stage, some useful reviews for
further reading are hep-ph/9709356 and hep-ph/0505105.
R. Britto (Saclay): Scattering amplitudes in gauge theories
Reading list:
Witten: Perturbative gauge theory as a string theory in twistor space, hep-th/0312171
Sections 1-3
Dixon: Calculating scattering amplitudes efficiently, hep-ph/9601359
Bern, Dixon, Kosower: On-shell methods in perturbative QCD, arXiv:0704.2798
B. Craps (VUB Brussels): Holography and cosmology
The course will focus on holography (in particular the AdS/CFT correspondence) and
applications to cosmology (in particular the study of cosmological singularities).
First, the importance of UV complete models for the study of the very early universe
will be stressed, and the study of the big bang singularity motivated. Then, the
basic ingredients of the AdS/CFT correspondence will be introduced: (super)gravity in
anti-de Sitter (AdS) space (including a preview of "AdS cosmology"), the N=4 superYang-Mills conformal field theory, and D-branes, which provide the link between the
two. Next, the AdS/CFT correspondence will be formulated, including a discussion of
the AdS/CFT dictionary and the UV/IR correspondence. The remaining lectures will
introduce concepts and techniques useful for the study of AdS cosmologies (but also
more generally). These include propagators, scalar fields in AdS, boundary conditions
in AdS and (multi-trace) deformations of CFTs, Coleman-De Luccia instantons, and
self-adjoint extensions.
The exercises will illustrate many concepts in the lectures, in particular D-brane
actions, boundary conditions and propagators for scalar fields in AdS, and multitrace deformations. The aim will be to compute the quantum effective potential for
spherical D-branes in AdS with boundary conditions corresponding to multi-trace
deformations.
Required reading before the course:
A basic discussion of big bang cosmology and slow-roll inflation. If you know what
slow-roll parameters are, you probably know enough for this course; otherwise, it is
recommended that you read for instance the first 18 pages of Liddle's lectures
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9901124.
Recommended reading before the course:
It is recommended that you read pages 1-20 of Maldacena's TASI 2003 lectures on
AdS/CFT, hep-th/0309246. Parts of this material will be discussed in the course, but
it will be helpful to have been exposed to it before. Depending on your background,
some parts will be easier to read/digest than others, but most likely everyone will
get something out of it. If you would like a more elaborate pedagogical introduction
to large N field theories, lecture 8 in Coleman's book "Aspects of symmetry",
Cambridge University Press (1985) is highly recommended.
A basic discussion of big bang cosmology and slow-roll inflation. If you know what
slow-roll parameters are, you probably know enough for this course; otherwise, it is
recommended that you read for instance pages 2-14 of Marieke Postma's lecture notes
from last year's school, http://www.nikhef.nl/~mpostma/inflation.pdf, or the first 18
pages of Liddle's lectures http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9901124.
Other references:
*For more details on the ingredients and formulation of the AdS/CFT correspondence, a
good starting point is the review by Aharony, Gubser, Maldacena, Ooguri & Oz, hepth/9905111. Look here if you find anything in Maldacena's TASI 2003 lectures too
compact.
*For AdS cosmologies, see Hertog & Horowitz, hep-th/0406134.
*The lecture on D-brane actions will be based on the presentation in Craps, hepth/0004198, pages 80-86.
*Useful references on propagators in AdS include Dullemond & Van Beveren, J. Math.
Phys. 26 (8), 1985; Allen & Jacobson, CMP 103, 669 (1986); and Burgess & Lutken, PLB
153 (3) 137 (1985).
*For more on self-adjoint extensions, see for instance Carreau, Farhi, Gutmann &
Mende, Annals Phys.204:186-207, 1990.
*The exercises will in part be based on some of the computations behind Bernamonti &
Craps, arXiv: 0907.0889.
Y. Levin (UL): Supermassive black holes
I will discuss black holes from a point of view of an astrophysicist. In particular,
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I will present observational phenomenology and outline outstanding issues in
theoretical astrophysics of supermassive black holes.
B. Schellekens (Nikhef/RU): The emperor's last clothes?
Once upon a time string theorists believed that they were going to derive the
Standard Model uniquely. This turned out to be a fairy tale. I will discuss why the
expectations were wrong, and will discuss the current status of string theory in the
light of realistic expectations. The anthropic principle, deeply hated by many
physicists, plays an inevitable and scientifically justifiable role in this context.
Based on Rept. Prog. Phys. 71: 072201, 2008 (e-Print: arXiv: 0807.3249)
S. Vandoren (UU): Non-perturbative effects in classical and quantum field theory
In these lectures, we discuss instantons in (super) Yang-Mills theory in four
dimensions and in quantum mechanics. First the basics are derived from scratch: the
regular and singular one-instanton solutions for Yang-Mills theories with gauge
groups SU(2) and SU(N), their bosonic and fermionic zero modes, the path integral
instanton measure, and supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories in Euclidean space. Then we
discuss applications: the theta-angle of QCD, the solution of the U(1) problem, the
way Higgs fields solve the large-instanton problem, and tunneling and phase
transitions in quantum mechanics and in nonabelian gauge theories. If time permits,
we also discuss instantons in gravity and string theory.
References: arXiv: 0802.1862; hep-th/0004186
2009:
E. Bergshoeff (RUG): Introduction to supersymmetry
This course provides an introduction into the basics of supersymmetry. It starts
with supersymmetric quantum mechanics and it ends with the supersymmetric Wess-Zumino
model. This course is self-contained.
For an in-depth discussion of the supersymmetry literature see the blog website:
http://fliptomato.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/supersymmetry-literature-for-theperplexed/
J.-S. Caux (UvA): Transmutation and fractionalization, or when 1 plus 1 isn't simply
2
Many-body systems can sometimes display one of the most surprising quirks of nature,
whereby the constituent fundamental particles can be superseded by collective
excitations of an altogether different nature.
These excitations carry very specific signatures of nonperturbative effects, and are
actively studied both from the experimental and theoretical side.
Important examples occur in quasi-1D magnetic systems, in which inelastic neutron
scattering allows the characterization of fractionalized spinons, and also in systems
of cold atoms in optical lattices, which offer a brand new way of realizing tunable
toy models of quantum condensed matter. On the theory side, many methods having close
connections with high-energy physics can be used to gain important insights and
provide quantitative phenomenology. This talk, aimed at non-condensed matter
physicists, will highlight some of the recent developments in this area.
M. Postma (Nikhef): Inflationary cosmology
These lectures give an introduction to cosmic inflation. In the first part I'll
review big bang cosmology, and outline the motivations for inflation. The second part
is devoted to the theory of cosmological perturbations generated during inflation,
which are thought to be the origin of all structure in the universe. Finally, in the
third part, I'll discuss some inflation models motivated by particle physics. This
course is self-contained. Some useful reviews of inflation are:
hep-ph/9807278, hep-ph/0210162, arXiv: 0708.2865.
V. Rychkov (SNS, Pisa): Beyond the standard model at the LHC
Does the Higgs boson exist? Is the world supersymmetric above a TeV?
Are new strong interactions responsible for the electroweak symmetry breaking? Such
and related questions will receive a definite answer at the Large Hadron Collider. In
these lectures we will discuss the three main scenarios for the LHC physics beyond
the Standard Models, concentrating on their characteristic features and experimental
signals.
These are Supersymmetry, Higgs as a pseudo-Goldstone boson, and Higgsless models.
Prerequisites and indications for literature:
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0) The Standard Model basics. Do you know the mass of the top quark? How the Z boson
decays? If not, please refresh your memory by looking up all Standard Model particles,
their masses and main decay channels at the Particle Data Group http://pdg.lbl.gov/
"Summary Tables" -> Gauge and Higgs bosons, Leptons, and Quarks.
1) Electroweak phenomenology. Look at Particle Data Group http://pdg.lbl.gov/
"Reviews, Tables, Plots" -> Standard Model and related topics -> the Electroweak
model, Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix
Alternatively, study R. Barbieri "10 lectures on electroweak interactions",
http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.0684v1 (go to v1 to access the file)
2) Collider physics. hep-ph/0508097 is a good review of the basics.
K. Schalm (UL): Strings and strongly coupled gauge theory
G. 't Hooft (UU): The CKM matrix: a question of flavor
The latest Nobel Prizes were for three elementary particle physicists of Japanese
origin, Y. Nambu, M. Kobayashi and T. Maskawa. The first stood at the basis of the
development of the Englert-Brout-Higgs theory for spontaneous symmetry breakdown in
particle physics. The last two made an essential step by casting the coupling between
the Higgs field and the quarks in the form of a matrix. This matrix not only
describes the masses and the weak interaction parameters of the quarks, thus defining
their "flavor" properties, but also allows for one effect that is not symmetric under
CP, the combination of a parity inversion and the replacement particle-antiparticle.
This gave an elegant explanation of CP violation in the weak interactions, provided
that the matrix was at least three dimensional. It turned out to be the first hint
for the existence of a third generation of quarks and leptons. Careful analysis of
the relation between this matrix and experimental data is used to investigate whether
the Standard Model of the Subatomic Particles, as it is known today, needs to be
extended.
2008:
A. Achúcarro (UL): Cosmology with strings attached
R. Harlander: Higgs physics at higher orders
Different methods for the evaluation of higher order corrections in Quantum Field
Theory are introduced. Beginning with standard techniques for 1-loop integrals, we
move on to exact approaches to the multi-loop case.
In particular, this involves the Integration-by-Parts method and its modern
implementations. On the other hand, we explain approximation techniques like
asymptotic expansions. All these methods are discussed in the background of
applications to high energy particle colliders, in particular to Higgs physics at the
Large Hadron Collider and a future Linear Collider.
* Feynman Integral Calculus, V.A. Smirnov, Springer 2006
* Integration by Parts: The Algorithm to Calculate Beta Functions in 4 Loops, K.
Chetyrkin, F. Tkachov, Nucl. Phys. B192:159-204, 1981
* Asymptotic Expansions: Methods and Applications, R. Harlander, Acta Phys. Polon.
B30:3443-3462, 1999 (hep-ph/9910496)
D. Litim: Functional renormalisation group and applications
The course provides a pedagogical introduction into modern functional renormalisation
group methods for quantum field theory. Applications cover the physics of phase
transitions and critical phenomena, finite temperature field theory, gauge theories,
and quantum gravity.
* Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Peskin/Schroeder, Chapter 12: The
Renormalisation Group. See also Daniel's
website: http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/~dl79/winterschool08.html
H. Stoof (UU): About ultracold fermi gases and neutron stars
M. Taylor (UvA): Black objects in string theory
This course will give an introduction to recent progress in string theory on
understanding the properties of black holes. In particular, we will see that string
theory can explain microscopically the entropy of black holes, and that it gives
suggestions for the resolution of the black hole information loss paradox.
* The first part of the course will focus on black holes in general relativity. A
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useful reference would be chapter 7 of Sean Carroll's lecture notes, available as the
preprint gr-qc/9712019, or the black hole chapters of his textbook Spacetime and
Geometry: an Introduction to General Relativity.
* For the second part of the course, the first part of chapter 12 of Elias Kiritsis'
book String Theory in a Nutshell would be useful. Note however that necessary
background material in string theory will be covered by the course.
R. Timmermans (RUG/KVI): Precision tests of the standard model
2007 (Brazil):
R. Forty (CERN): Physics challenges of the LHC
G. 't Hooft (UU): Feynman rules and unitarity
* The Conceptual Basis of Quantum Field Theory, (2007 version) G. 't Hooft,
http://www1.phys.uu.nl/drstp/Postgr.courses/THEP/2007Brazil/conceptual%20basis.pdf
Y. Nomura (UC Berkeley): Beyond the standard model
H. Ooguri (Caltech): Topological string theory
T. Plehn (Munich): Collider phenomenology
K. Skenderis (UvA): Introduction to AdS-CFT
* Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity, O. Aharony, S.S. Gubser, J.
Maldacena, H. Ooguri, Y. Oz
(hep-th/9905111), http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9905111
* Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and the AdS/CFT Correspondence, Eric D'Hoker, Daniel
Z. Freedman (hep-th/0201253),
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0201253
* Lecture Notes on Holographic Renormalization, Kostas Skenderis (hep-th/0209067),
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0209067
* AdS/CFT Correspondence and Geometry, Ioannis Papadimitriou and Kostas Skenderis
(hep-th/0404176),
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0404176
J. Smit (UvA/UU): Finite-temperature field theory
* Finite-temperature field theory, principles and applications, Joseph I. Kapusta and
Charles Gale, Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics, second edition 2006,
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2001:
E. Bergshoeff (RUG): The many faces of string theory
G. 't Hooft (UU): Gravitons
P. Mulders (VUA): Quantum chromodynamics and hadron structure
K. Schoutens (UvA):
B. Tausk (Freiburg): Electroweak physics
Ch. van Weert (UvA): Thermal field theory
2000:
J. de Boer (UL/UU): String and M-theory
K. Gaemers (UvA): Neutrino physics and CP violation
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1999:
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1998:
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1996:
P. van Baal (UL):
F.A. Bais (UvA): Topological aspects of gauge theories
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A. Sevrin (VU, Brussel): BRST quantization
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H. Bijnens (Kopenhagen): Flavours, colours and their consequences: CP-violation,
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1994:
E. Bergshoeff (RUG):
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1993:
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1992:
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1990:
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1989:
F. Bais (UvA): Superstrings
P. Bongaarts (UL): Group theory
K. Gaemers (UvA): Phenomenology of weak interactions
J.W. van Holten (Nikhef): Path integrals
1988:
F.
K.
G.
M.
J.
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Smit (UvA): Lattice gauge theories
1987:
F. Bais (UvA): General relativity and cosmology
W. van Neerven (UL): Perturbative QCD
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J. de Swart: Group theory
B. de Wit (UU): Path integrals
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