HEP: Electroweak Interactions

Instructors

• Sandra S. Padula
• Sérgio F. Novaes
• Thiago R. F. P. Tomei

Duration

• 8 weeks
• 32 hours

Audience

Enrollment

• Find the forms and documents here

About the Course

Recommended Background

• It is essential to have a first course in Quantum Field Theory and it is desirable to have notions of regularisation and renormalisation

Course Format

• Lectures
• Exercises

Course Syllabus

1. Basic Concepts

• 1.1 A Chronology of Interactions
• 1.2 The Gauge Principle
• 1.3 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
• 1.4 The Higgs Mechanism

2. The Standard Electroweak Model

• 2.1 The Weinberg-Salam Model
• 2.2 Some General Comments
• 2.3 Introducing the Quarks
• 2.4 The Standard Model Lagrangian

3. Beyond the Trees

• 3.1 Radiative Corrections
• 3.2 LEP Results on Electroweak Parameters

4. Higgs Boson: The Missing Piece

• 4.1 The Higgs Boson Physics

Suggested Readings

• Standard Model: An Introduction, S. F. Novaes in Particle and Fields, Proceedings of the X J. A. Swieca Summer School (World Scientific, Singapore, 2000) - arXiv:hep-ph/0001283.
• Gauge Theories in Particle Physics, I. J. R. Aitchison and A.J.G. Hey (Graduate Student Series in Physics, IoP, 2004)