Email: m.nardecchia@uniroma1.it
Time schedule:
Tuesday 10-12, Aula Rasetti
Wendesday 16-18, Aula 5
Office hours:
23/09/2019: Introduction, dimensional analysis. [GT] pages 3-4.
25/09/2019: Energy scales, finite dimensional irreps of the Lorentz group [Wi] pages 1-7. 2 components notation [Ma] section 2. QED and extensions.
26/09/2019: SM lagrangian [GT] pages 4-7. Custodial symmetry [Wi] pages 14-17. Singular value decomposition of a matrix.
30/09/2019: NO LECTURE TODAY (scientific travel)
02/10/2019: Flavour structure of the SM and counting of the physical parameter [GT] pages 7-13. Various examples: QED, Zeeman effect, SM, Weinberg operators. See also [Wi] section 2.
03/10/2019: Parametrization of the CKM matrix [GT] pages 13-15. Discrete symmetries [We1], see chapters 2 and 5. Decay of the orto- and para-positronium.
07/10/2019: C, P, CP in QCD. CP violation in the SM, Jarlslog invariant and Unitarity Triangle(s). [BLS] chaptes 13 and 14, [GT] pages 15-20.
09/10/2019: FCNC in the SM and beyond. Loops and GIM. [GT] section 4 and 5, exercises 2.2 and 4.2.
10/10/2019: Superficial degree of divergence, renormalizable and non-renormalizable theories. Renormalization of QED. See Cabibbo lecture "Divergenza Superficale" and [We1] chapter 12.
14/10/2019: Effective field theories. Geralities and various example. See [P] pages [1-13] and [Man] Section 4.
16/10/2019: NO LECTURE TODAY (because of https://agenda.infn.it/event/20227/)
17/10/2019: QCD largangian in the chiral limit, Noteher and Golstone theorem. [SS] section 1.3 and [CL] section 3.1
21/10/2019: Exercise Session by Daniele Barducci
23/10/2019: Symmetry breaking abelian model. EFT for broken symmetries G/H [We1] section 19.6 . Chiral symmetry breaking.
28/10/2019: Chiral Lagrangian at the lowest order [P] pages [36-42]. Charged pion decay.
30/10/2019: Explicit breaking by mass term, chiral lagrangian at the fourth order in momenta. [P] pages [36-42]
4/11/2019: CVC, pion beta-decay, superallowed nuclear decays [Ge] pages [63-68], [Sa] lecture 3295,
6/11/2019: Free Neutron decay, measurement of Vud, semileptonic Kaon decay, Ademollo-Gatto Theorem .[PDG] Review 79, [GT] pages [47-51], [DGH] for Ademollo-Gatto
11/11/2019: NO LECTURE TODAY
13/11/2019: Measurement of Vus, general properties of hadrons, mass mixings. [PDG] Review 79, [GT] Section 6 and 8.2.
18/11/2019: Large logarithms and RGE. [PS] pg. 125, [Sc] pages [416-423].
20/11/2019: MSbar scheme QED example and RGE from counter-terms. [Sc] pages [423-426]+ any QFT book that discusses MSbar.
25/11/2019: Renormalizatio of composite operators, example of the EM conserved current radiative correction to the muon decay
27/11/2019: Dimensional Regularization, [SC] Appendix B. Renormalization of non-leptonic operators in the framework of EFT [SC], Section 31.3.
2/12/2019: Non-leptonic operators, solution of the RGE, generalization including penguin operators. [Si], section 3.2
4/12/2019: Delta I=1/2. [Ge] section 9.3 and 9.4
9/12/2019: Meson oscillation. Lectures CP violation G. Ridolfi and P. Nason. See also [GT] chapter 11
11/12/2019: Estimate of DeltaM and epsilon in the Standard Model. See section 11.5 of [GT] more references to be added.
16/12/2019: NO LECTURE TODAY
18/12/2019: CP violation, general aspect, CPV in decays, measusrement of CKM gamma. [GT] chapter 12.
8/1/2020: Motiovations for physics beyond the Standard Model
13/1/2020: Hierarchy problem and supersymmetry
15/1/2020, aula 5, 12:00: Supersymmetric lagrangian and the MSSM
15/1/2020, aula Rasetti, 16:00: Phenomenological aspects of the MSSM and direct searches at the LHC
17/01/2020, aula Touschek,11:00: Flavour anomalies, seminar
14/02/2020
28/02/2020
15/02/2020
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
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
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