Particle physics: the flavour frontiers
PHYS-471
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Organisation and timing
Each week, there will be the following materials and activities:
- Live lecture with slides shared via moodle. We currently don't plan to record the lectures.
- Exercise class with several exercises to solve and to go through with the help of a TA.
Course teachers
- Lecturer: Prof. Radoslav Marchevski
- Teaching assistants: Luis Miguel Garcia Martin
Course time and location
- Lecture sessions: Wednesdays 10:15 - 12:00 in BSP 626
- Exercise sessions: Wednesdays 13:15 - 15:00 in BSP 626
Reading list
The main book on the Standard Model is the book by Yuval Grossman and Yosef Nir: "The Standard Model: from fundamental symmetries to experimental tests" that can be found in the library, as well as the "Just a Taste" lecture series available on arXiv (arXiv:1711.03624).
For summaries, most recent reviews and technical information, please use the Particle Data Group (PDG) website https://pdg.lbl.gov/.
February 21 - Lecture 1: Introduction - lagrangians and symmetries
- Grossman and Nir: Chapter 1 - Lagrangians (File)
- Lecture 1 presentation (File)
- Problems sheet (File)
February 26 - Lecture 2: Abelian symmetries
- Lecture 2 presentation (File)
- Grossman and Nir: Chapter 2 - Abelian symmetries (File)
- Problem Sheet Week 2 (File)
March 5 - Lecture 3: Non-Abelian symmetries and spontaneous symmetry breaking
- Grossman and Nir: Chapter 4 - Non-Abelian symmteries (File)
- Grossman and Nir: Chapter 6 - Spontaneous Symmtery Breaking (File)
- Lecture 3 presentation (File)
- ProblemSheet Week 3 (File)
March 12 - Lecture 4: The Standard Model
- Grossman and Nir: Chapter 7 - The Leptonic Standard Model (File)
- Grossman and Nir: Chapter 8 - The Standard Model (File)
- Lecture 4 presentation (File)
- Week4Problems (File)
March 19 - Lecture 5: The Standard Model II
- Grossman and Nir: Chapter 7 - The Leptonic Standard Model (File)
- Grossman and Nir: Chapter 8 - The Standard Model (File)
- Lecture 5 presentation (File)
- Problems Week 5 (File)
- Solutions Week 5 (File)
March 26 - Lecture 6: Flavour and the CKM matrix
- Grossman and Nir: Chapter 7 - The Leptonic Standard Model (File)
- Grossman and Nir: Chapter 9 - Flavour physics (File)
- Lecture 6 presentation (File)
- Problems Week 6,7,8 (File)
- Problem sheet theo week 6,7,8 (File)
- Solutions Week 6, 7, 8 Exp (File)
April 2 - Lecture 7: Experimental aspects of flavour physics
April 9 - Lecture 8: QCD at low energies – tree-level meson decays
April 16 - Lecture 9: Semileptonic decays and Flavour Changing Neutral Currents
- Grossman and Nir: Chapter 10 - QCD at Low Energies (File)
- Lecture 9 presentation (File)
- Problems Week 9 (File)
- Problem Sheet 9Exp (File)
April 16 - Lecture 10: Flavour Changing Neutral Currents and non-leptonic meson decays
- Grossman and Nir: Chapter 10 - QCD at Low Energies (File)
- Grossman and Nir: Chapter 13 - Flavour Changing Neutral Currents (File)
- Lecture 10 presentation (File)
April 30 - Lecture 11: Neutral meson mixing and oscillation
- Lecture 11 presentation (File)
- Grossman and Nir: Chapter 13 - Flavour Changing Neutral Currents (File)
- Problems Week 11 Theo (File)
- Problem Week 11 Exp (File)
- Solutions Week 11 Exp (File)
May 22 - Lecture 12: Neutral meson mixing and oscillation
- Grossman and Nir: Chapter 13 - Flavour Changing Neutral Currents (File)
- Lecture 12 presentation (File)
- Problems Week 12 (File)