Pratical info

Emails:

• daniele.barducci@uniroma1.it

• m.nardecchia@uniroma1.it

Time schedule:

• Monday 14-16, Aula 6, Fermi Building (from 19/10/2020), link streaming: meet.google.com/dkg-mcoo-ugr

• Tuesday 10-12, Aula Rasetti, Marconi Building (until 30/10/2020), link streaming: meet.google.com/xps-gyht-zqp

• Wednesday 16-18, Aula 7, Fermi Building, link streaming: meet.google.com/ycd-rwpu-hxy

Google Classroom code: mx7bkck

Lectures

1. 29/09/2020: Introduciton and discussion about the program of the course.

2. 30/09/2020: Dimensional analysis, estimate of the muon decay, relevant energy scales.

3. 06/10/2020: SM lagrangian, Higgs sector and custodial symmetry. [GT] pages 1-7, [Wi] section 3.

4. 07/10/2020: Higgs physics (brief review), exercise session.

5. 13/10/2020: Flavour structure of the SM and counting of the physical parameter [GT] pages 7-13. Various examples: QED, Zeeman effect, SM, BSM.

6. 14/10/2020: Discrete symmetries

7. 19/10/2020: CP violation in the SM, CKM unitarity triangles

8. 20/10/2020: FCNC in the SM and beyond

9. 21/10/2020: Effective field theories

10. 26/10/2020: Yukawa sector with RH neutrinos [GK] pages 180-187. Counting of relevant parameters and measured values of masses and PMNS parameters

11. 27/10/2020: Neutrino oscillations in vacuum [GK] Chapter 7. Majorana mass term in four component notation [GK] pages 188-194

12. 28/10/2020: Dirac-Majorana mass term [GK] pages 216-218. Two component spinor formalism [Dr] pages 1-17

13. 2/11/2020: QED in two component formalism. Dirac, pseudo-Dirac and see-saw limits for the SM extended with RH neutrinos [GK] 220-229. Derivation of the Weinberg operator in four and two components [GK] pages 205-208

14. 4/11/2020: Counting of the physical parameters for LSM+Weinberg operator. Discussion of 0v2b decay. Derivation of all the states that can give the Weinberg operator at tree-level.

15. 9/11/2020: Geometry of an homogeneous and isotropic Universe. Dynamics and derivation of the continuity equation for the energy density [Ba] pages 1-8 and 16-20

16. 11/11/2020: Derivation of Friedmann equations. Evolution of a matter, radiation or vacuum dominated Universe [Ba] pages 22-28

17. 16/11/2020: Number density, energy density and pressure for a gas of relativistic or non relativistic matter [Ba] pages 47-53

18. 18/11/2020: Effective number of relativistic species g*. Entropy conservation and effective number of relativistic species in entrypy g*S. Entropy injection after e+e- annihilation [Ba] pages 53-59

19. 23/11/2020: Relic density of massless and massive neutrinos. Astrophysical bounds on neutrino masses [Ba] pages 59-60. Boltzmann equation [Ba] pages 60-62

20. 25/11/2020: WIMP miracle and Dark Matter experiments [Ba] pages 62-64. Chemical potential for electrons.

21. 30/11/2020: Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: 4He/H ratio [Ba] pages 68-73

22. 2/12/2020: Neutrino Exp (Prof. M. Vignati)

23. 11/12/2020: Dark Matter Exp 1 (Prof. A. Messina)

24. 14/12/2020: Motivations for physics beyond the Standard Model

25. 16/12/2020: Hierarchy problem

26. 21/12/2020: Dark Matter Exp 2 (Prof. A. Messina)

27. 11/1/2021: QCD and its symmetries

28. 13/1/2021: Weak interactions of light quarks

29. 18/1/2021: Axion Physics 1 (Prof. E. Nardi, INFN-LNF)

30. 20/1/2021: Axion Physics 2 (Prof. E. Nardi, INFN-LNF)

31. 25/1/2021: Ricevimento collettivo, chiarimenti modalità di esame

References

From arXiv:

• [Bu] A. Buras, arXiv:hep-ph/9806471

• [Co] R. Contino, arXiv:1005.4269

• [GT] Y. Grossmann, P. Tanedo, arXiv:1711.03624

• [Man] A. Manohar, arXiv:1804.05683

• [Ma] S. Martin, arXiv:hep-ph/9709356

• [P] A. Pich, arXiv:hep-ph/9806303

• [SS] S. Scherer, R. Schindler, arXiv:hep-ph/0505265

• [Si] L. Silvestrini, arXiv:1905.00798

• [Wi] S. Willenbrock, hep-ph/0410370

• [Dr] H. K. Dreiner, H. E. Haber, S. P. Martin hep-ph/0812.1594

Books:

• [BLS] G. Branco, L. Lavoura, J. Silva, CP Violation

• [CL] T.P. Cheng, L.F. Li, Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle

• [DGH] J. Donoghue, E. Golowich, B. Holstein, Dynamics of the Standard Model

• [Ge] H. Georgi, Weak Interactions

• [MS] F. Mandl, G. Shaw, Quantum Field Theory

• [PS] M. Peskin, D. Shroeder, An introduction to Quantum Field Theory

• [Sc] M. Schwartz, Quantum Field theory and the Standard Model

• [Sr] M. Srednicki, Quantum Field Theory

• [We1] S. Weinberg, Quantum Field Theory , Volume 1

• [We2] S. Weinberg, Quantum Field Theory , Volume 2

• [GK] C. Giunti, C. W. Kim, Fundamentals of Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics

• [RG] V. A. Rubakov, D. S . Gorbunov, Introduction to the Theory of the Early Universe (Hot Big Bang Theory)

• [KT] E. W. Kolb, M. S. Turner, The Early Universe

Other lectures online:

• N. Cabibbo

• H. Georgi

• G. Ridolfi

• [Sa] M. Savage

• [Ba] D. Baumann

More Links:

• Weak Interactions in the Standard Model and Beyond 2019/2020

• European Strategy Physics Book

• [PDG] Particle Data Group

• SISSA exams, TPP

• SISSA exams, APP

• How to became a GOOD Theoretical Physicist

• ArXiv

• Inspire

• Courses@Sapienza

• Sapienza webpage of the course