Course Summary

Below are the NExT PhD School modules confirmed so far for the 2014-15 academic year. More will become available in due course and will be posted here.

Core courses

Quantum Field Theory (QFT) part I (20 hours)[Daniel Litim, Sussex]  Wed 9:00-12:00, Sep 24 - Dec 10 

Symmetries/Group Theory (20 hours)  (20 hours) [Veronica Sanz, Sussex]  Tue 14:00-17:00, Sep 23 - Dec 9 

Standard Model (20 hours) [Steve West, RHUL] Mon 13:00-16:00, Nov 3 - Dec 8 

Quantum Field Theory (QFT) part II (20 hours) [Tim Morris, Soton] TBA

Quantum Field Theory (QFT) part III (20 hours) [Alexander Belyaev, Soton] TBA

Supersymmetry & BSM (20 hours)  [Elena Accomando, Soton and Stephan Huber, Sussex] TBA

Phenomenology (20 hours) [Stefano Moretti, Soton] 16:00-18:00, 9-10 Jul & 11:00-13:00, 13-22 Jul

Non-Core courses

Advanced particle physics (20 hours) [Fabrizio Salvatore and Simon Peeters, Sussex] Tue:15:17, Jan 20- Apr 7

Hadron Collider Physics (15 hours) [Nikolas Kauer, RHUL]  Mon-Fri 10:00-11:30 Apr 13-Apr 24

Introduction to Computational Tools in Particle Physics (15 hours)  [Alexander Belyaev, Soton] TBA

Neutrino Physics  and Particle Cosmology  (20 hours) [Pasquale Di Bari, Soton] TBA

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Details/syllabuses of mini courses

Advanced particle physics, Fabrizio Salvatore and Simon Peeters, Sussex

1 Essential skills for the experimental particle physicist 

2 Neutrino physics: Neutrino oscillations and reactor neutrinos 

3 Neutrino physics: SuperNova, geo- and solar- neutrinos and direct neutrino mass measurements 

4 Cosmic ray physics 

5 Dark matter 

6 Introduction to QCD (jets, particles distribution functions, etc) 

7 Higgs physics 

8 BSM (including supersymmetry) 

9 Flavour physics & CP violation 

10 Electric dipole measurements 

11 Future particle physics experiments 

QFT in Curved Space-Time, Ilya Shapiro, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil  

Lecture 1.

GR and its limits of applicability, Planck scale.

Quantum gravity and semi-classical approach.

Classical fields on curved background.

Lecture 2.

Formulation of quantum field theory on curved background. covariance and renormalizability in curved space-time.

Renormalization group in curved space.

Lecture 3.

Derivation of conformal anomaly.

Anomaly-induced effective action and Starobinsky model of inflation.

Effective approach in curved space-time.

Classification of vacuum states in the vicinity of black hole.

Lecture 4.

The problem of cosmological constant and its possible running (scale and time dependence) in cosmology.

Phenomenological approach and astrophysical applications of quantum corrections.

Bibliography:

I.L. Buchbinder, S.D. Odintsov, I.Sh.,

Effective Action in Quantum

Gravity (1992 - IOPP).

I.Sh., Effective Action of Vacuum: Semiclassical Approach.

Class. Quant. Grav. 25 (2008) 103001 (Topical review); arXiv:

0801.0216.

Abelian extensions of the Standard Model, Chiral and Conformal Anomalies, Claudio Coriano', Salento & Soton

U(1) extensions of the Standard Model. Kinetic Mixing of the abelian sector.

Constraints from anomaly cancellations.

Evolution at 2 loop of the potential, Flavour and stability.

Anomalies and model building.

Formal results

Anomaly cancellation with a gauged axion

Strings & D-Branes, Shaaban Khalil, Zewail City of Science & Technology

Lecture 1: Bosonic String