Lectures:
TRIUMF
Main Office Building 220
Tue+Thu, 9:30-11:00am
Jan.3-Apr.4, 2019
Remote connection to be set up
Instructor: David Morrissey
TRIUMF, MOB 129
(604) 222-7697
dmorri_att_triumf.ca
Teaching Assistant:
Ryley Hill
ryleyhill_att_phas.ubc.ca
Office Hours:
TRIUMF MOB 229
(email me to make an appointment)
Outline
Review of QFT basics and QED
Calculation Bootcamp
Symmetries in particle physics
Generalizing QED: non-Abelian gauge theories
Spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism
The structure of the Standard Model
Electroweak and Higgs physics
Loops and effective field theories
QCD, from high to low energy and back
Collider Physics
Beyond the Standard Model
Prerequisites
PHYS 506, 508, or 526.
You should be familiar with obtaining Feynman rules from a Lagrangian,
and know how to compute scattering amplitudes in QED.