Particle Physics II

Readings

Reading assignments are from lecture notes and from the course textbooks:

Q&L = Halzen, F., and A. D. Martin. Quarks & Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1984. ISBN: 9780471887416.

CP = Barger, V. D., and R. J. N. Phillips. Collider Physics. Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN: 9780201149456.

Lec #	Topics	READINGS
1	Fundamental Building Blocks and their Interactions	Q&L, Chapter 1 CP, Chapter 1
2	Symmetries and Quarks; Discoveries of the J, Upsilon	Q&L, Chapter 2
3	Gluons, Particle-antiparticle, Gluons inside Nucleons	Q&L, Chapter 3/5
4	Dirac Formalism, Chirality, Helicity, Why Higgs?	Q&L, Chapter 5
5	Local Gauge Transformation	Q&L, Chapter 5
6	Solutions of the Dirac Equation	Q&L, Sections 12.11-13 CP, Sections 2.8-10
7	Matrix, Decays, Cross Sections and Radiative Corrections
8	Polarization, Propagator, Interaction Matrix, Cross Sections and Unitarity Bounds	Q&L, Chapter 6 CP, Chapter 2
9	Unitarity Bound Violation and “New” Particles	Q&L, Section 15.6 and references there Muirhead, H. Notes on Elementary Particle Physics. 1st ed. New York, NY: Pergamon Press, 1972, section 7.5. ISBN: 9780080165509.
10	Bottom-up Approach: Unitarity Bounds, “New” Particles and their Coupling Constants	Lecture Notes for Session 10
11	Unitarity Bounds, Higgs, its Coupling Constants and Limit on its Mass	Lecture Notes for Session 11
12	Electro-weak Interactions	Q&L, Chapter 13
13	Review
14	Mid-term
15	Discussion on Research Topics
16	Prelude to The Standard Model (SM)	Q&L, Chapter 14
17	Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Higgs Top-down Approach
18	Masses and Interactions of Weak Bosons and Fermions	Q&L, Chapter 15
19	QCD, QED and EW Corrections within SM
20	Divergence in SM and Plausible Solutions SUSY	CP, Chapter 14
21	Technical Color	CP, Section 12.8
22	Reading Assignments based on Lecture Notes on SM, and Models beyond SM
23	Presentations of Research Papers