Course structure
Outline
The course is given in the second study period of the autumn semester.
The course aims to convey the theoretical foundations of particle physics standard model and its possible extensions, and also how to use the basic formulae to calculate predictions for some observables that can be measured in modern particle physics experiments.
The Standard Model of particle physics is based on Quantum Field Theory, but this course does not require prior knowledge. The course will instead give the necessary basic knowledge needed to understand the building blocks of of the Standard Model, and the basic tools needed to use it to calculate expectation values of observables.
The course covers the following topics:
- Building blocks of the standard model
- Group theory
- Lagrange functions
- The Dirac and Klein-Gordon equations
- The Lagrange density of the standard model
- Cross-sections
- Strong interaction
- Electroweak interaction
- Scale dependence
- CP violation
- Experimental support for the Standard Model
- Neutrino masses and oscillations
- Grand unification and supersymmetry
Course literature, apart from lecture notes: Gordon Kane, Modern Elementary Particle Physics, second edition, Cambridge University Press, 2017, ISBN 9781107165083
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