Gauge Theories and the Standard Model

- Sep 10:  No class

- Sep 17

Lecture 0 - Intro to course, Lecture 1 - Gauge Theories

Readings: Peskin and Schroeder 15, 16.1; Schwartz 25, 26.1, 26.2

- Sep 24

Lecture 2 - Path Integrals

Readings: Srednicki 6, 7, 8, 9, 43, 44, 53; Peskin and Schroeder 9; Schwartz 14

- Oct 1, Class 3:

Lecture 2 (continued)

- Oct 8, Class 4:

Lecture 3 - Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Readings: Peskin and Schroeder 11.1, 20.1, 21.2 (optional rest of 21); Schwartz 28

- Oct 15, Class 5:

Lecture 3 (continued), Lecture 4 - Electroweak Theory

Readings: Donoghue, Golowich, Holstein 2.3, 2.4; Martin and Wells 10.1, 10.2, 10.3

- Oct 22, No Class (Fall break)

- Oct 29, Class 6

Lecture 4 (Continued)

- Nov 5, Class 7 and 8

Lecture 4 (continued)

Readings: same as class 5

Lecture 5 - EFT and the Low Energy SM

Readings:  My EFT lecture notes (https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03622), and see the annotated bibliography therein.

- Nov 12, Class 9

Lecture 5 (continued), Lecture 6 - Electroweak Phenomenology

Readings: Peskin (Particle Physics) Ch 15.  Particle Data Group Review "Electroweak Model and Constraints"

- Nov 19, Class 10

Lecture 6 (continued), Lecture 7 - QCD

Readings: Peskin (particle) 5, 14; Donoghue, Golowich, Holstein 4, 7; Cheng and Li 4, 5

- Nov 26, Class 11

Lecture 7 (continued)

- Dec 3, Class 12

Lecture 7 (continued)

- Dec 10, Class 13

Lecture 7 (continued)

- Dec 17, Class 14

Lecture 8 - Beyond the Standard Model

Readings:  

Nathaniel Craig: Naturalness Review (https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05708)

Ben Safdi: Lectures on the Particle Physics and Astrophysics of Dark Matter (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02169) 

Tongyan Lin:  Dark Matter Models and Direct Detection (https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07915)

Tracy Slatyer: Indirect Detection of Dark Matter (https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.02696)

Matthew McCullough: BSM Lecture (https://cds.cern.ch/record/2853278/files/lecturenotes.pdf)

Anson Hook: Lectures on Axions (https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02669)

Dan Green: Lectures on Cosmic Signals of Fundamental Physics (https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08685)

Stephen Martin: A Supersymmetry Primer (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9709356)