Beyond the Standard Model

Mandatory homework quiz to be completed before the first session (Mon 06.05.2019)

https://presemo.helsinki.fi/bsm1/

First session (slides):

• Introduction
• The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics
• The Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism in the SM
• Motivations for going beyond the SM

In-class quiz: Problem 1

Questions and comments: Flinga (access code: EF79VD3)

Useful literature:

• Standard Model: an introduction (S. F. Novaes)
• The Anatomy of ElectroWeak Symmetry Breaking. I: The Higgs boson in the Standard Model (Abdelhak Djouadi)
• Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model (Matthew D. Schwartz)
• Standard Model cheat sheet

Second session: lecture notes

• Recap of first session
• Singlet scalar extensions of the SM
• Doublet scalar extensions of the SM

In-class quiz: https://presemo.helsinki.fi/bsm2

Questions and comments: Flinga (access code: EF79VD3)

Useful literature:

• THE report: Theory and phenomenology of two-Higgs-doublet models
• Singlet scalar and 2HDM extensions of the Standard Model

Third session: lecture notes

• Recap of the second session
• Minimisation conditions
• Mass eigenvalues and eigenstates

In-class quiz: here

Questions and comments: Flinga (access code: EF79VD3)

Useful literature:

• THE report: Theory and phenomenology of two-Higgs-doublet models
• Singlet scalar and 2HDM extensions of the Standard Model

Fourth session: lecture notes

• Theoretical and experimental bounds
• Scalar Dark Matter

In-class quiz: here

Questions and comments: Flinga (access code: EF79VD3)

Fifth session:

• Scalar Dark Matter
• Recap of the week
• Assessment

In-class quiz: https://presemo.helsinki.fi/bsm3

Questions and comments: Flinga (access code: EF79VD3)

Useful literature:

• The Inert Doublet Model
• CP violating scalar Dark Matter

To pass the course, you must give a 10-minute presentation in English on 31.05.2019 (at 10:00 in A315) on one of these projects. The projects are assigned on a first come - first served basis. Send an e-mail with three of your project choices, in decreasing order of preference. The assigned projects will be announced by 10.05.2019 here.

Jaakko: W \to UD

Tomi: Z \to XX

Alex: gg \to gg

Shudhashil: \gamma \to XX

Jong-Hyun: W \to L\nu

Lauri: g \to XX

Grades discussion: https://presemo.helsinki.fi/bsmexam based on the sum of the grades for

• clarity of the presentation (1 point)
• putting the topic in context (1 point)
• ability to answer the questions (1 point)
• interaction with the class (1 point)
• the attitude and enthusiasm of the speaker and the collegiality of the atmosphere created with the aim of knowledge transfer (1 point)

Your feedback for different parts of the course is greatly appreciated: https://presemo.helsinki.fi/bsmfeedback