Course Identification
Elementary particles II, student seminar -Part 1
Lecturers and Teaching Assistants
Prof. Gilad Perez, Prof. Kfir Blum, Dr. Nitzan Akerman
Course Schedule and Location
Tuesday, 14:15 - 16:00
03/11/2020
Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points
Physical Sciences: Seminar; Elective; Regular; 2.00 points
Chemical Sciences: Seminar; Elective; Regular; 2.00 points
Attendance and participation
Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)
Syllabus
- The SM & its accidental symmetry structure, plus technical naturalness & the LEP paradox & some Higgs physics.
- Supersymmetry some basics & phenomenology.
- Extra dimension physics with emphasis on warped models & composite Higgs.
- Collider phenomenology.
- If time permits: relaxion stuff and other recent developments.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course the students will be able to:
Acquire some of the basic knowledge related to modern particle physics.
Reading List
An updated list will be given a few weeks before the beginning of the semester.
However, relevant material can be found in the following books and review papers:
- T.P. Cheng and L-F. Li, Gauge theory of elementary particle physics,
- V. Barger and R. Phillips, Collider physics
- S. Novaes, Standard model: An Introduction, hep-ph/0001283
- S. Dawson, Introduction to electroweak symmetry breaking hep-ph/9901280
- S. Dawson, Tasi lectures http://quark.phy.bnl.gov/~dawson/tasi06.html
- W. Hollik, Electroweak theory hep-ph/9602380
- J. Wells, Introduction to precision EW analysis hep-ph/0512342
- Gustavo Castelo Branco, Luís Lavoura & João Paulo Silva, CP Violation.
- Yosef Nir, CP violation: A New era, hep-ph/0109090.
- Oram Gedalia and Gilad Perez, TASI 2009 Lectures - Flavor Physics, 1005.3106 [hep-ph].
- Stephen Martin, A Supersymmetry primer, hep-ph/9709356
- Jan Louis, Ilka Brunner and Stephan J. Huber, The supersymmetric standard model, hep-ph/9811341