Physics 528: Elementary Particle Physics
General Information
Lectures:
FNH 320
Tue+Thu, 9:30-11:00am
(Jan.3-Apr.7, 2017)
Instructor:
David Morrissey
TRIUMF, MOB 129
(604) 222-7697
dmorri_att_triumf.ca
Office Hours:
TRIUMF MOB 129
(email me to make an appointment)
Outline
- Review of QFT basics and QED
- 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
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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.
Grading Scheme
- 75% Homework Assignments
- 25% Final Report and Presentation
Course Notes
- Notation and Background
- Review of QFT
- Symmetries
- Non-Abelian Gauge Theories
- Symmetry Breaking
- The Standard Model
- Testing the SM
- QFT Stuff
- QCD at Low Energies
- QCD at High Energies
- Collider Physics
- Beyond the SM
Link to notes from 2011 (notes above are updated)
Homework Assignments
- Background and Notation (not due)
- Review of QFT and QED (Jan.19)
- Symmetries (Jan.26)
- Gauge Theories (Feb.2)
- Symmetry Breaking (Feb.9)
- Standard Model (Feb.16)
- More Standard Model (Mar.2)
- Resonances and More (Mar.9)
- Renormalization (Mar.16)
- QCD at Low Energies (Mar.23)
- Some Practice (Mar.30)
Final Project
Topics and Details
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