Admission Requirements
Bachelor of Physics with the course Physics of Elementary Particles or a clear equivalent. Recommended Effective Field Theory.
Description
This course will discuss the foundation and the structure of the Standard Model of the particle physics.
Content of the course:
1. From relativistic Quantum Mechanics to Quantum Field Theory
2. Weak and strong interactions
3. Model of Fermi and model of Yukawa
4. Internal inconsistencies of Fermi model. Ways to resolve them
5. Predictions of massive vector bosons
6. Non-Abelian gauge symmetries and their spontaneous breaking
7. Higgs field and Higgs boson
8. Electroweak theory
9. Sketchy overview of Quantum Chromodynamics and modern views on strong interactions
10. Main observational problems “beyond the Standard Model”
Course objectives
The course will give an historical approach for building the SM and discuss the different possibilities on the way of its establishing. The connection between Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory will be discussed, the examples of QFT calculation will be given. Then the SM will be derived using experimental observations.
Timetable
Physics Schedule
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Mode of instruction
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Assessment method
Homeworks – 40%
Written exam – 60%
Final grade is a sum of grades for the homeworks and exam.
Exam can be retaken
Reading list
“Introduction to Electroweak Unification: Standard Model from Tree Unitarity” by J. Horejsi
“Gauge Theory of elementary particle physics” (any edition) by Ta-Pei Cheng and Ling-Fong Li
As a general reference for Quantum Field theory
- “An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory” (any edition) by M.E. Peskin and D.V.Schroeder or "Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model" (any edition) by M.D. Schwartz
Registration
As a student, you are responsible for enrolling on time through MyStudyMap.
In this short video, you can see step-by-step how to enrol for courses in MyStudyMap.
Extensive information about the operation of MyStudyMap can be found here.
There are two enrolment periods per year:
Enrolment for the fall opens in July
Enrolment for the spring opens in December
See this page for more information about deadlines and enrolling for courses and exams.
Note:
It is mandatory to enrol for all activities of a course that you are going to follow.
Your enrolment is only complete when you submit your course planning in the ‘Ready for enrolment’ tab by clicking ‘Send’.
Not being enrolled for an exam/resit means that you are not allowed to participate in the exam/resit.
Contact
Lecturer: Dr. Alexey Boyarsky
Remarks
Software
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