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Advanced Particle Theory
171.783 Fall 2010
Course Description: We will discuss the Standard Model of Particle Physics
loosely following the book by H. Georgi ``Weak interactions and Modern Particle
Theory''. See the course syllabus on the next page.
Instructor: Prof. Kirill Melnikov ([email protected]). Office hours:
Monday 1-3 pm room 455 and by appointment.
Literature: Useful books are ``Weak interactions and Modern Particle Theory''
by H. Georgi, ``Dynamics of the Standard Model'' by J.F. Donoghue, E. Golowich
and B. Holstein. Many topics that we will be discussing are also covered in more
traditional textbooks on quantum field theory, including ``Quantum Field Theory''
by M. Peskin and D. Schroeder, ``Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle Physics''
by T.P. Cheng and L.F. Li and many others.
Lectures: Tuesdays – Thursdays, Bloomberg 475, 4.00-5.30 .
Course Syllabus
Dates
Lecture
08/31/10
09/02/10
Symmetries in field theory
09/07/10
09/09/10
Leptons in the Standard Model
09/14/10
09/16/10
Spontaneous symmetry breaking, the sigma model, the Higgs mechanism, custodial
symmetry
09/21/10
09/23/10
The SM with six quarks and six leptons, quark and lepton mixing, neutrino masses
09/28/10
09/30/10
SU(3) semileptonic decays, form factors
10/05/10
10/07/10
Low-energy pions, chiral Lagrangian, external currents, chiral perturbation theory
10/12/10
10/14/10
SU(3) chiral Lagrangian; meson masses and decays
10/19/10
10/21/10
Anomalies, neutral pion decay to two photons
10/26/10
10/28/10
Baryons and chiral Lagrangian
11/02/10
11/04/10
Effective Lagrangian and non-leptonic decays
11/09/10
11/11/10
CP-violation in K-mesons
11/16/10
11/18/10
Radiative corrections in the Standard Model
11/23/10
11/25/10
QCD description of lepton-hadron interactions
11/30/10
12/02/10
Higgs physics at hadron colliders