PhD Timo Kärkkäinen (timo.j.karkkainen X helsinki.fi), Physicum C311.
17.5: Lecture 10 completed. Notes updated up to section 4.6. This is the final version of the lecture notes. If you haven't given feedback on the neutrino part of the course, you should at Presemo, even if you don't plan to pass the course. If you plan to pass the course, you should pick a topic for neutrino essay, if you haven't done so already. The deadline for essay is 20.6.
16.5: Lecture 9 completed. Notes updated up to section 4.4. Answer quiz questions 7-9 before Friday's lecture at 14:15.
15.5: Lecture 8 completed. Notes updated up to section 3.1 and beginning of 3.2. Typos fixed and references added. Answer quiz question 7 before Friday's lecture at 14:15.
14.5: Tomorrow's lecture is at Physicum D112. Lecture 7 completed. Notes updated up to section 2.3, it has a few typos and references missing. They will be on the next upload. Answer quiz questions 4-6 before Wednesday's lecture, 15.5.2019 at 14:15.
13.5: Lecture 6 (PDF). Lecture notes uploaded up to section 1.5. Answer quiz questions 2 and 3 before Tuesday's lecture, 14.5.2019 at 14:15.
10.5: Please answer a preliminary quiz before Monday's lecture, 13.5.2019 at 14:15.
Essay topics and instructions available! (PDF)
Note: I have relaxed the essay length requirement from 2000 words to 1500 words.
• Lecture 6. Historical development of electroweak interactions and neutrinos. Helicity and chirality. Fierz transform.
• Lecture 7. Flavour. Mixing. Mass and flavour eigenstates. Neutrino oscillations in vacuum.
• Lecture 8. Neutrino oscillations in matter. Subleading effects on neutrino flavour transitions.
• Lecture 9. Neutrino mass matrix. Seesaw mechanism, type I and II.
• Lecture 10. Left-Right symmetric model. Neutrinophilic model.
For beginners, I recommend reading Chapters 11-15 of Thomson's Modern Particle Physics or Chapters 9-11 of Griffiths' Introduction to Elementary Particles.