School/Teaching
Summer/Winter School materials:
2022:
50th SLAC Summer Institute (SSI 2022), SLAC, Menlo Park, CA, 8-19 August 2022
Teaching at University of Cincinnati:
After 2013:
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Fall 2013:
(13FS) ADV PART PHYS (001) 13FS_PHYS9015001
Notes:
Lecture1 Content of Lecture 1 (Aug 27): Introduction to Standard Model; Lorentz symmetry; Weyl, Dirac spinors; Majorana mass; field content of the SM; the SM Lagrangian; the Higgs Mechanism - an Abelian example
Lecture2 Content of lecture 2 (Aug 29): Systematics of the Higgs mechanism; non-Abelian example of the Higgs mechanism; formal description of the Higgs mechanism; Higgs mechanism in the SM
Lecture3 Content of lecture 3 (Sept 3): Higgs coupling to fermions; CKM matrix; Custodial symmetry
Lecture4 Content of lecture 4 (Sept 5): Custodial symmetry, Sand T parameters, experimental status, bounds on 4th generation
Lecture5 Content of lecture 5 (Sept 9): Higgs phenomenology in the SM; low energy Higgs theorem; Higgs production; Higgs decay; distinguishing resonances
Lecture6 Content of lecture 6 (Sept 10): Higgs loop induced decays; experimental status; effective Lagrangian for Higgs; constraints on the 4th generation
Lecture7 Content of lecture 7 (Sept 12): Introduction to supersymmetry; hierarchy problem; supermultiplets; field content of MSSM
No lectures in the week of Sept 16-20
Lecture8 Content of lecture 8 (Sept 23): 2 component notation, constructing SUSY Lagrangians, SUSY transformations/algebra
Lecture9 Content of lecture 9 (Sept 24): interactions of chiral supermultiplets, Lagrangians for gauge supermultiplets,
Lecture10 Content of lecture 10 (Sept 26): chiral superfields, vector superfields, SUSY action from superspace
Lecture11 Content of lecture 11 (Sept 30): gauge fields in superspace, superspace Lagrangians for general gauge theories, R symmetries
Lecture12 Content of lecture 12 (Oct 1): soft SUSY breaking, minimal supersymmetric model, MSSM superpotential
Lecture13 Content of lecture 13 (Oct 3): soft SUSY breaking in the MSSM, flavor bounds, gauge coupling unification
No lectures in the weeks of Oct 7-18
Lecture14 Content of lecture 14 (Oct 21): renormalization group running in the MSSM
Lecture15 Content of lecture 15 (Oct 22): models of spontaneous SUSY breaking, F-term, D-term breaking
Lecture16 Content of lecture 16 (Oct 24): gravity mediated SUSY breaking
Lecture17 Content of lecture 17 (Oct 28): gauge mediated SUSY breaking, anomaly mediated SUSY breaking
Lecture18 Content of lecture 18 (Oct 29): mass eigenstates in the MSSM, neutralinos, charginos
Lecture19 Content of lecture 19 (Oct 31): masses of gluinos, squarks in the MSSM
Lecture20 Content of lecture 20 (Nov 4): bounds on SUSY particles at the LHC
Lecture21 Content of lecture 21 (Nov 5): Higgs mass and SUSY, 2HDM
Lecture22 Content of lecture 22 (Nov 7): SUSY models beyond MSSM and current LHC data
No lectures in the weeks of Nov 11-12:
Lecture23 Content of lecture 23 (Nov 14): EWSB through new strong interactions, EFT for general broken symmetries, ChPT
Lecture24 Content of lecture 24 (Nov 18): ChPT, Technicolor
Lecture25 Content of lecture 25 (Nov 19): Technicolor, Higgs as an NGB
Lecture26 Content of lecture 26 (Nov 21): effective action for composite Higgs
Lecture27 Content of lecture 27 (Nov 25): pion potential in QCD, EW precision tests for composite Higgs, Higgs potential from top quark
Lecture28 Content of lecture 28 (Nov 26):
To see the videos of lectures please contact me (the videos are accessible through Google+ and YouTube). Live stream is Mondays at 2.15pm, and Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9.30am local time on this link (if you want to participate with questions please use Google Hangouts instead, though).
Homework:
(required for students that are not auditing)
1st homework is due Oct 4 2013. The .pdf file with the homework is available here.
2nd homework is due Nov 4 2013. The .pdf file with the homework is available here.
3rd homework is due Nov 21 2013. The .pdf file with the homework is available here.
4th homework is due Dec 9 2013. The .pdf file with the homework is available here.
2011-2012
Spring quarter:
15PHYS914 - Field Theory
Course Syllabus: available here.
Literature:
Peskin, Schroeder: Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
Weinberg: The Quantum Theory of Fields, Vol. 2
Homeworks:
1st homework is due Apr 27 2012. The .pdf file with the homework is available here.
2nd homework is due May 18 2012. The .pdf file with the homework is available here.
3rd homework is due May 25 2012. The .pdf file with the homework is available here.
4th homework is due June 1 2012. The .pdf file with the homework is available here.
Winter quarter:
15PHYS913 - Field Theory
Course Syllabus: available here.
Literature:
Peskin, Schroeder: Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
Weinberg: The Quantum Theory of Fields, Vol. 1
Homeworks:
1st homework is due Jan 26 2012. The .pdf file with the homework is available here. (Note added Jan 23 2012: typos in problem 2 have been corrected)
2nd homework is due Feb 10 2012. The .pdf file with the homework is available here.
3rd homework is due Mar 1st 2012. The .pdf file with the homework is available here.
4th homework is due Mar 13th 2012. The .pdf file with the homework is available here. (To be sent to me via email!)
2010-2011
Spring quarter:
15PHYS913 - Field Theory
Course Syllabus: available here.
Literature:
Peskin, Schroeder: Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
Weinberg: The Quantum Theory of Fields, Vol. 1 and 2
Homeworks:
1st homework is due Apr 19 2011. The zip file with the homework is available here (just .pdf here).
2nd homework is due May 5 2011. The zip file with the homework is available here (just .pdf here).
3rd homework is due May 26 2011. The zip file with the homework is available here (just .pdf here).
4th homework is due June 7 2011. The zip file with the homework is available here (just .pdf here).
Winter quarter:
15PHYS913 - Field Theory
Course Syllabus: available here.
Literature:
Peskin, Schroeder: Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
Weinberg: The Quantum Theory of Fields, Vol. 1
Homeworks:
1st homework is due Feb 3rd 2011. The zip file with the homework is available here.
2nd homework is due Feb 24th 2011. The zip file with the homework is available here (just .pdf here).
3rd homework is due Mar 10th 2011. The zip file with the homework is available here (just .pdf here).
4th homework is due Mar 18th 2011. The zip file with the homework is available here (just .pdf here).
Outreach
Quarknet June 2013 program