FU:TFNCF0005 Standard Model of EW Ints - Course Information
TFNCF0005 Standard Model of Electroweak Interactions
Institute of physics in Opavasummer 2023
- Extent and Intensity
- 4/2/0. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- RNDr. Mikuláš Gintner, Ph.D. (lecturer)
RNDr. Josef Juráň, Ph.D. (lecturer)
RNDr. Mikuláš Gintner, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
RNDr. Josef Juráň, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- RNDr. Josef Juráň, Ph.D.
Institute of physics in Opava - Timetable
- each even Tuesday 8:55–12:10 319, each even Tuesday 16:25–19:40 319
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
- 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
- Particle physics (programme FU, TFYZNM)
- 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.
- Main topics:
- 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.
- Enrolment Statistics (summer 2023, recent)
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