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2015-2016 Course Summary
Below are the NExT PhD School modules confirmed so far for the 2015-16 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] Fri 10:00-13:00, Sep 25 - Dec 11
Symmetries/Group Theory (SPP) (18 hours) [Veronica Sanz, Sussex] Tue 11:00-12:00, Fri 16:00-18:00, Oct 13 - Nov 13 and Dec 8 - Dec 11
Standard Model (20 hours) [Steve West, RHUL] TBA
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 (20 hours) [TBA] TBA
Phenomenology (20 hours) [Stefano Moretti, Soton] TBA
Non-Core courses
Advanced particle physics (20 hours) [Fabrizio Salvatore and Simon Peeters, Sussex] TBA
Hadron Collider Physics (15 hours) [Nikolas Kauer, RHUL] TBA
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
BSM (15 hours) [Stephan Huber, Sussex] TBA
Introduction to Lattice QCD (15 hours) [Andreas Juttner, Soton] TBA
Mini courses
QFT in Curved Space-Time (5 hours) [Ilya Shapiro, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil] (the course will be followed by a Friday Seminar on the 21st of February at 13:00):
Tue 17 Feb 14:00-16:00
Wed 18 Feb 10:00-12:00
Thu 19 Feb 10:00-11:00
Abelian extensions of the Standard Model, Chiral and Conformal Anomalies (10 hours) [Claudio Coriano', Salento, Italy & Soton]:
Mon 15 Jun through to Fri 19 Jun 15:00-17:00
Topics in BSM Physics (8 hours) [Shaaban Khalil, ZCST, Egypt]
Mon 20 Jul through to Thu 23 Jul 14:00-16:00
Lattice Methods (6 hours) [Francesco Sanfilippo, Soton]
Tue 21 Jul through to Thu 23 Jul 11:00-13:00
Lattice Methods, Francesco Sanfilippo, Soton
Lattice regularization of Scalar and Pure gauge field theories
Treatment of fermions, QCD
Lattice contribution to the phenomenology of Standard Model
Continuum limit, renormalization
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Lecture 2: Superstring
Lecture 3: T- Duality
Lecture 4: D-Brane and Gauge Theory
Reference textbook:
An introduction to String Theory and D-Drane Dynamics
by Richard J Szabo
Course suggestion/discussion/voting
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adding your name, e-mail and the provisional subject of the course. All students/lecturers are very welcome to discuss/select/vote for the suggested course or add their
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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
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