Theories in Particle Physics (53251)

Autumn 2011

Lecturer:	Paul Hoyer	C321	191 50681
Assistant:	Tommi Markkanen	C311
Lectures:	Tu 16-18	A315	First lecture on 6 September
	We 16-18	A315
Exercises:	Th 16-18	A315	First exercise on 15 September
Final exam:	Th 26.1.12	9-13	Aud. D116	Solutions Grades

Aims:: A basic understanding of the Standard Model of Particle Physics and its comparison with experimental data.
The course is required for students of theoretical particle physics and recommended for experimentalists.

Course description

Prerequisites: Quantum mechanics I (or equivalent)
Introduction to Particle Physics I and II (or equivalent)
Quantum mechanics II (recommended)
Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (recommended)

Textbooks:: I. J. R. Aitchison and A. J. G. Hey: Gauge Theories in Particle Physics I and II (IOP 2003, 2004)
M. E. Peskin and D. V. Schroeder: An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (Addison-Wesley 1995)
C. Itzykson and J.-B. Zuber: Quantum Field Theory (McGraw-Hill 1980)
M. H. Seymour: Quantum ChromoDynamics (2010)
Notes from Sidney Coleman's Physics 253a (Harvard 1986)

Lecture notes (151 pages). Lecture on 30.11 ended on p. TPP 146.
Lecture notes (16 pages) by Tommi Markkanen (27-28.9.11).
Slides (55 slides)
Questions and Comments (19 slides)

Rutherford to LHC

A. Pich: Electroweak Phenomenology (ESHEP Raseborg 2010, slides)
G. Hiller: (Hadronic) Flavor Physics (ESHEP Raseborg 2010, slides)
G. Altarelli: Neutrino Mass and Mixing (Erice 2011, slides and write-up)
M. Neubert: Heavy-Quark Symmetry and Heavy-Quark Effective Theory (Séminaire Transalpin de Physique 2008, slides)

Formulas from A&H.
Formulas from P&S.
Formulas from I&Z.
Particle Data Group compilation of particle properties.

Exercises:	15.9 Ex_1.pdf	22.9 Ex_2.pdf	29.9 Ex_3.pdf	6.10 Ex_4.pdf	13.10 Ex_5.pdf	20.10 Ex_6.pdf	3.11 Ex_7.pdf	10.11 Ex_8.pdf
Solutions:	Sol_1.pdf	Sol_2.pdf	Sol_3.pdf	Sol_4.pdf	Sol_5.pdf	Sol_6.pdf	Sol_7.pdf	Sol_8.pdf
	17.11 Ex_9.pdf	24.11 Ex_10.pdf	1.12 Ex_11.pdf	8.12 Ex_12.pdf	15.12 Ex_13.pdf
Solutions:	Sol_9.pdf	Sol_10.pdf	Sol_11.pdf	Sol_12.pdf

Theories in Particle Physics in 2010.