Pratical info

Emails:

• daniele.barducci@uniroma1.it

• m.nardecchia@uniroma1.it

Time schedule:

• Monday 14-16

• Wednesday 16-18

• Friday, 14-15

Lecture room: Careri (Marconi building), link streaming here

Office hours: any time but better to send an email or arrange with the teacher:

• live: room 250 Marconi

• online: meet.google.com/sef-rgvn-yoi

Google Classroom code: ewowi3i

Lectures

1. 22/09/2021 [2h]: Introduciton and discussion about the program of the course.

2. 24/09/2021 [1h]: Dimensional analysis, estimate of the muon decay, relevant energy scales.

3. 27/09/2021 [2h]: Yukawa sector with RH neutrinos. Counting of relevant parameters and measured values of masses and PMNS parameters. [GK: 107-110, 180-186]

4. 29/09/2021 [2h]: Neutrino oscillations in vacuum [GK 245-261] Majorana mass term in four components notation [GK 188-194]

5. 01/10/2021 [1h]: Dirac-Majorana mass term [GK 216-218]

6. 04/10/2021 [2h]: Two component spinor formalism [Dr 5-16]. Dirac, pseudo-Dirac limits for the SM extended with RH neutrinos [GK 220-226

7. 06/10/2021 [2h]: See-saw limits for the SM extended with RH neutrinos. Derivation of the Weinberg operator in four and two components [GK 226-229]. Counting of the physical parameters for LSM+OW. Discussion of 0\nu2\beta decay.

8. 08/09/2021 [1h]: Exercise session

9. 11/10/2021 [2h]: Derivations of all the operators that give the Weinberg operator at tree-level. Geometry of an homogeneous and isotropic Universe. Dynamics and derivation of the continuity equation for the energy density [Ba 1-8, 16-20]

10. 13/10/2021 [2h]: Derivation of Friedmann equations. Evolution of a matter, radiation or vacuum dominated Universe [Ba 22-28]

11. 15/10/2021 [1h]: Number density, energy density and pressure for a gas of relativistic matter [Ba 47-52]

12. 18/10/2021 [2h]: Number density, energy density and pressure for a gas of non-relativistic matter [Ba 53-53]. Effective number of relativistic species g*. Entropy conservation [Ba 53-56]

13. 20/10/2021 [2h]: Effective number of relativistic species in entropy g*S. Entropy injection after e+e- annihilation. Relic density of massless and massive neutrinos. Astrophysical bounds on neutrino masses [Ba 56-60]

14. 22/10/2021 [1h]: Boltzmann equation [Ba 60-61]

15. 25/10/2021 [2h]: WIMP miracle and Dark Matter experiments [Ba 62-64]

16. 27/10/2021 [2h]: Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: 4He/H ratio [Ba 68-73]

17. 29/10/2021 [1h]: Exercise session.

18. 03/11/2021 [2h]: Dark Matter, experimental aspects

19. 05/11/2021 [1h]: Phenomenology of dark matter in direct detection

20. 08/11/2021 [2h]: Experimental status of dark matter searches (part 1)

21. 10/11/2021 [2h]: Experimental status of dark matter searches (part 2)

22. 17/11/2021 [2h]: Flavour structure of the SM, physical parameters, spurions. [GT]

23. 19/11/2021 [1h]: Accidental symmetries of the SM, parametrization of the CKM. [GT]

24. 24/11/2021 [2h]: Flavour changing currents at the tree level. [GT]

25. 26/11/2021 [1h]: 2 Higgs doublet model [GT]

26. 1/12/2021 [2h]: Absence of FCNC with neutral gauge bosons. Flavour violation at loop level [GT]

27. 6/12/2021 [2h]: General aspects of effective field theory. [P]

28. 10/12/2021 [1h]: Hadrons, quntum numbers. [GT]

29. 13/12/2021 [2h]: Phenomenology of light quarks, chiral lagrangian [P]

30. 15/12/2021 [2h]: Chiral lagragian, leptonic decay of the pion [P]

31. 17/12/2021 [1h]: Chiral lagragian, mass terms [Ge]

32. 20/12/2021 [2h]: Semileptonic decays, Vud, Vus [Ge]

33. 22/12/2021 [2h]: Motivations for BSM physics, SMEFT

34. 10/01/2022 [2h]: The hierachy problem

35. 12/01/2022 [2h]: Solutions to the hierarchy problem

36. 14/01/2021 [1h]: General discussion about the course, exam, ecc.

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 2020/2021

• 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