Particle Physics II

Calendar

LEC #	TOPICS
1	Fundamental Building Blocks and their Interactions
2	Symmetries and Quarks; Discoveries of the J, Upsilon
3	Gluons, Particle-antiparticle, Gluons inside Nucleons
4	Dirac Formalism, Chirality, Helicity, Why Higgs?
5	Local Gauge Transformation
6	Solutions to the Dirac Equation
7	Matrix, Decays, Cross Sections and Radiative Corrections
8	Polarization, Propagator, Interaction Matrix, Cross Sections and Unitarity Bounds
9	Unitarity Bound Violation and “New” Particles
10	Bottom-up Approach: Unitarity Bounds, “New” Particles and their Coupling Constants
11	Unitarity Bounds, Higgs, its Coupling Constants and Limit on its Mass
12	Electro-weak Interactions
13	Review
14	Mid-term
15	Discussion on Research Topics
16	Prelude to The Standard Model (SM)
17	Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Higgs Top-down Approach
18	Masses and Interactions of Weak Bosons and Fermions
19	QCD, QED and EW Corrections within SM
20	Divergence in SM and Plausible Solutions SUSY
21	Technical Color
22	Reading Assignments based on Lecture Notes on SM, and Models beyond SM
23	Presentations of Research Papers