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 analyse the physics of the electroweak Standard Model and Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) after having derived the
Feynman rules. The necessary group theoretical knowledge will be introduced during the course and used to introduce the quark model.
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 collider experiments.

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). Recommended: Particle Physics (PHY-4-Particle).

? 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

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
07/01/2008	14:00	15:00			Supa Room 6224 - JCMB

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 Flavour sector of the SM and the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix
11) familiar with collider phenomenology and tests of the SM, especially with Higgs boson phenomenology at present and future colliders like the LHC (Large Hadron Collider at CERN).