Physics 528: Elementary Particle Physics
Syllabus
General Information
Lectures:
Hennings 301
Tue+Thu, 9:30-11:00am
(Jan.4-Apr.07, 2011)
Instructor:
David Morrissey
TRIUMF, MOB 129
(604) 222-7697
dmorri_att_triumf.ca
Make sure to fill out the online course evaluation!
Teaching Assistant:
Peter Winslow
pwinslow_att_phas.ubc.ca
Office Hours:
Fridays, 10am-12pm
Hennings 319
Textbook:
The Standard Model: A Primer
Cliff Burgess and Guy Moore
Outline
- Symmetries in particle physics
- Generalizing QED: non-Abelian gauge theories
- Spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism
- The Structure of the Standard Model
- Electroweak Physics
- QCD, from High to Low Energy and Back
- The Standard Model at High Energy colliders
- Higgs Hunting
- Flavour Mixing and CP Violation
- Neutrino Oscillations
- Beyond the Standard Model
Prerequisites
-
PHYS 506 or 508.
You should be familiar with obtaining Feynman rules from a Lagrangian,
and know how to compute scattering amplitudes in QED.
Grading Scheme
- 60% Homework Assignments
- 40% Final Report and Presentation
(Topics)
Course Notes
- Review of QFT and QED
- Symmetries and Stuff
- Gauge Theories
- Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
- Fermions, the Standard Model
- Flavour and the Standard Model
- Electroweak Tests of the Standard Model
- Loops, Anomalies, and EFTs
- QCD at Low Energy
- QCD at High Energy
- Collider Physics
- Beyond the Standard Model