WEAK INTERACTIONS IN THE STANDARD MODEL AND BEYOND
Academic year 2020/2021
Lecturers: D. Barducci and M. Nardecchia
Academic year 2020/2021
Lecturers: D. Barducci and M. Nardecchia
Emails:
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
29/09/2020: Introduciton and discussion about the program of the course.
30/09/2020: Dimensional analysis, estimate of the muon decay, relevant energy scales.
06/10/2020: SM lagrangian, Higgs sector and custodial symmetry. [GT] pages 1-7, [Wi] section 3.
07/10/2020: Higgs physics (brief review), exercise session.
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.
14/10/2020: Discrete symmetries
19/10/2020: CP violation in the SM, CKM unitarity triangles
20/10/2020: FCNC in the SM and beyond
21/10/2020: Effective field theories
26/10/2020: Yukawa sector with RH neutrinos [GK] pages 180-187. Counting of relevant parameters and measured values of masses and PMNS parameters
27/10/2020: Neutrino oscillations in vacuum [GK] Chapter 7. Majorana mass term in four component notation [GK] pages 188-194
28/10/2020: Dirac-Majorana mass term [GK] pages 216-218. Two component spinor formalism [Dr] pages 1-17
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
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.
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
11/11/2020: Derivation of Friedmann equations. Evolution of a matter, radiation or vacuum dominated Universe [Ba] pages 22-28
16/11/2020: Number density, energy density and pressure for a gas of relativistic or non relativistic matter [Ba] pages 47-53
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
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
25/11/2020: WIMP miracle and Dark Matter experiments [Ba] pages 62-64. Chemical potential for electrons.
30/11/2020: Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: 4He/H ratio [Ba] pages 68-73
2/12/2020: Neutrino Exp (Prof. M. Vignati)
11/12/2020: Dark Matter Exp 1 (Prof. A. Messina)
14/12/2020: Motivations for physics beyond the Standard Model
16/12/2020: Hierarchy problem
21/12/2020: Dark Matter Exp 2 (Prof. A. Messina)
11/1/2021: QCD and its symmetries
13/1/2021: Weak interactions of light quarks
18/1/2021: Axion Physics 1 (Prof. E. Nardi, INFN-LNF)
20/1/2021: Axion Physics 2 (Prof. E. Nardi, INFN-LNF)
25/1/2021: Ricevimento collettivo, chiarimenti modalitĂ di esame
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
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