The Standard Model (U03224)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : PHY-5-StandMod

The methods developed in Relativistic Quantum Field Theory (PHY-4-RelQFT) are applied to construct and discuss the physics of the electroweak Standard Model and QCD and its Feynman rules. A central role in the electroweak theory will be played by the Higgs mechanism and flavour physics. For QCD the concept of a running coupling and the beta function will be motivated. The phenomenology of the Standard Model will be discussed for e+e-colliders, DIS (deep inelastic scattering) and hadronic collisions. Special emphasis will be put on Higgs physics at present and future colliders (LEP,Tevatron,LHC).

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : At least 80 credit points accrued in courses of SCQF Level 9 or 10 drawn from Schedule Q, including Physical Mathematics (PHY-3-PhMath); Methods of Mathematical Physics (PHY-4-MPMeth), Groups & Symmetries (PHY-4-GroupSym)

? Co-requisites : Relativistic Electrodynamics (PHY-4-ElDyn), Relativistic Quantum Field Theory (PHY-4-RelQFT)

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Undergraduate (School of Physics), (School of Physics, Schedule Q)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 5th year

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Monday	14:00	14:50	KB
Lecture	Thursday	14:00	14:50	KB

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course it is intended that a student is:
1) familiar with symmetry principles in relativistic field theories and to be able to apply Noether's Theorem
2) able to construct simple abelian/nonabelian field theories
3) familiar with spontaneous symmetry breakdown in the sigma model, and the the Goldstone Theorem
4) able to formulate spontaneously broken gauge theories and to be familiar with the Higgs mechanism
5) familiar with the Standard Model (SM) Lagrangian, its derivation and its Feynman rules in the unitary gauge
6) able to evaluate simple tree-level scattering processes in the SM
7) familiar with the quark model
8) the concept of a running coupling, the beta function and asymptotic freedom in QCD
9) familiar with the QCD parton model, parton distribution functions and the Altarelli-Parisi equations
10) familiar with the infrared problem and factorisation in QCD
11) familiar with the Flavour sector of the SM and the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix
12) familiar with e+e- collider phenomenology and precision tests of the SM
13) able to compute 2 and 3 jet observables
14) familiar with the SM bounds on the Higgs boson mass
15) familiar with lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron collider phenomenology
16) familiar with Higgs boson phenomenology at present and future colliders, especially at the planned Large Hadron Collider (LHC)