FPF:UFDF012 Standard Model of Electroweak - Course Information
UFDF012 Standard Model of Electroweak Interactions
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaWinter 2021
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: dzk.
- Guaranteed by
- prof. Ing. Peter Lichard, DrSc.
Centrum interdisciplinárních studií – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava - Prerequisites
- Prerequisite course: UF/DF001
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics (programme FPF, P1703 Fyz4) (2)
- Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics (programme FPF, P1703 Fyz4) (2)
- Course objectives
- Description of electroweak processes, which are important both in elementary particle physics and astrophysics.
- Syllabus
- The weak interaction before the gauge theories. Universal V-A theory and its problems. Intermediate vector bosons. Abelian and non-Abelian gauge invariance. Electroweak unification and gauge symmetry. SU(2)xU(1) gauge theory for leptons. Higgs mechanism. Interactions of the Higgs boson. Charged current weak and electromagnetic interactions of leptons. Elementary weak processes with leptons. Weak neutral currents, low energy neutrino-electron scattering. Weinberg angle, masses of the W and Z bosons. Interactions of the W and Z bosons, their leptonic decay widths. Electroweak interactions of quarks. Universality of weak interactions. GIM (Glashow,Iliopoulos, Maiani) mechanism, a prediction of the c quark. CP parity violation and the Kobayashi and Maskawa argument in the favor of three families of quarks. Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix and its parametrizations.
Jarlskog's invariant. Quark mechanisms of the weak leptonic, semileptonic, and nonleptonic decays of hadrons. Explanation of the phenomenological selection rules for the weak decays of hadrons.
- The weak interaction before the gauge theories. Universal V-A theory and its problems. Intermediate vector bosons. Abelian and non-Abelian gauge invariance. Electroweak unification and gauge symmetry. SU(2)xU(1) gauge theory for leptons. Higgs mechanism. Interactions of the Higgs boson. Charged current weak and electromagnetic interactions of leptons. Elementary weak processes with leptons. Weak neutral currents, low energy neutrino-electron scattering. Weinberg angle, masses of the W and Z bosons. Interactions of the W and Z bosons, their leptonic decay widths. Electroweak interactions of quarks. Universality of weak interactions. GIM (Glashow,Iliopoulos, Maiani) mechanism, a prediction of the c quark. CP parity violation and the Kobayashi and Maskawa argument in the favor of three families of quarks. Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix and its parametrizations.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- Maggiore M. A Modern Introduction to Quantum Field Theory. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-852074-3. info
- Guidry M. Gauge Field Theories. WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co, 2004. ISBN 978-0-471-63117-0. info
- Hořejší J. Fundamentals of Electroweak Theory. The Karolinum Press, 2002. ISBN 80-246-0639-9. info
- Ho-Kim Q., Yem X. P. Elementary Particles and Their Interactions. Springer, 1998. ISBN 3-540-63667-6. info
- Hořejší J. Elektroslabé sjednocení a stromová unitarita. Univerzita Karlova, 1993. ISBN 80-7066-674-9. info
- Teaching methods
- One-to-One tutorial
Skills demonstration
Students' self-study - Assessment methods (in Czech)
- Kombinovaná zkouška
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- The attendance at lectures is recommended. It may be substituted by the self-study of recommended literature and individual consultations.
- Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2021, recent)
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