• Classification of strong interacting
particles: SU(2) and SU(3) as (approximate) flavour symmetries
• Quark static model: hadronic resonances
• Chiral symmetry
• Colour and SU(3) gauge symmetry.
• Introduction to
QCD. Running and Λ QCD. Confinement
• Incoporation of strong interactions and hadrons in
the standard model. CKM matrix
• Basic proceses in the standard model and their
computation
• Large Hadron Collider (LHC) basics
Contents
- Introduction to hadron
phenomelogy
* Isospin
* G parity
* Strangeness
* Charm and bottom quantum numbers
* Quark model
* SU(2) and the pions
* SU(3) flavour symmetry
* PCVC and PCAC
* J/Psi. Charm and t, b
* Rtio R and Colors
- Incorporation of hadrons in the standard model
* The need for color.
* SU(3) gauge theory: the gluons
* Jets
* Global symmetries of SM
* Quarks in the standard model
* CKM matrix
* GIM and charm
* CP violation
- Basic processes
* Weak decay of leptons
* Leptonic decay of hadrons
* Semi-leptonic decay of hadrons
* Pions decay constant
* Strangeness changing currents
- Effective Field Theories
* Power counting and effect of higher dimension
operators
* Modern view of renormalizable theories
* Chiral Lagrangian
- Deep inelstic scattering and the
parton model
* Electron-proton scattering and form factors
* Lepton-nucleon scattering, deep
Inelastic scattering regime
* Bjorken scaling
* Partons and structure functions
* Scaling violations
- LHC Physics
* Electrowek symmetric breaking
* Higgs production at LHC
* New Physics
Textbooks - I.J.R. Aitchison and A.J.G. Hey, ``Gauge Theories in
Particle Physics'', A.Hilger Ed. (1989).
- E. Leader and E. Predazzi, ``An introduction to Gauge
Theories and modern Particle Physics'', Cambridge Univ. Press
(1996).
- F. Halzen and A.D. Martin, ``Quarks and Leptons'', Wiley Ed.
(1984).
- D.H. Perkins, ``Introduction to High Energy Physics'',
Cambridge Ed. (2000).
- M. Srednicki, ``Quantum Field Theory'', Cambridge
(2007). Draft
- S. Weinberg, ``Quantum Field Theory I and II'',
Cambridge.
- L.B. Okun. ``Leptoni e Quarks". Editori Riuniti 1986.
- H. Georgi. ``Weak Interactions". Notes
- H. Georgi. ``Lie Algebras in Particle Physics". Frontiers
in Physics 2nd edition.
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