TFNCF0005 Standard Model of Electroweak Interactions

Institute of physics in Opava
summer 2025
Extent and Intensity
4/2/0. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Josef Juráň, Ph.D. (lecturer)
RNDr. Josef Juráň, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
RNDr. Josef Juráň, Ph.D.
Institute of physics in Opava
Prerequisites (in Czech)
(FAKULTA(FU) && TYP_STUDIA(N))
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
Course objectives
A goal of this course is to provide basic knowledge how to build Standard model of electroweak interactions - the theory based on gauge symmetries. The course is lectured from historical and phenomenological point of view.
Learning outcomes
Upon successful graduation from the subject, a student will be able to understand construction principles of theories based on gauge symmetries; to construct a model with required symmetries; to understand Standard model of electroweak interactions at basic level.
Syllabus
  • Main topics:
    • Beta decay. Fermi theory and its generalization.
    • Difficulties of Fermi-type theory. Intermediate bosons.
    • Gauge theories. Symmetry and interaction. Abelian and non-abelian gauge invariance.
    • Yang-Mills field. Spontaneous symmetry breaking.
    • Higgs mechanism. Goldstone bosons. Interaction of higgs field. • Gauge model with one lepton family and one quark family.
    • Multigeneration model. GIM construction (Glashow, Iliopoulos, Maiani). CKM matrix (Cabibbo, Kobayashi, Maskawa).
    • Standard model of electroweak interactions. Lagrangian. R-gauges and gauge independence. Unitaty gauge. Feynman rules.
    • Charged and neutral currents, custodial symmetry. Equivalence theorem.
    • Unitarity and renormalization.
    • Vacuum polarization corrections, electroweak precision test (EWPT). • Theories beyond the Standard model.
    • Effective extensions of the Standard model.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Hořejší J. Elektroslabé sjednocení a stromová unitarita: nestandardní úvod do standardního modelu. Karolinum, 1993. ISBN 80-7066-674-9. info
  • Hořejší J. Fundamentals of Elektroweak Theory. Nakladatelství Karolinum, 2002. ISBN 8024606399. info
  • Burgess C. P., Moore G. D. The Standard Model: A Primer, Cambridge, 2007
  • Aitchison I. J. R., Hey A. J. G. Gauge Theories in Particle Physics: A Practical Introduction, Volume 2: Non-Abelian Gauge Theories: QCD and The Electroweak Theory, CRC Press, 2013
  • Guidry M. Gauge Field Theories. John Wiley & Sons, 1991. ISBN 047135385X. info
  • Schwartz M. D. Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model, Cambridge, 2014
  • M. Peskin, D. V. Schroeder. An introduction to quantum field theory. Addison-Wesley, 1995. info
  • Quigg Ch. Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions, Princeton, 2013
Teaching methods
Monological (lecture, briefing)
Tutorial
Students' self-study
One-to-One tutorial
Assessment methods
homework
random test
written test
oral and written exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms summer 2021, summer 2022, summer 2023, summer 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (summer 2025, recent)
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