lectures

Warnings:

These lecture notes have typos in them. Although every attempt will be made to remove those that are found, it is not completeley free of errors.

There are various exercises in the notes. Those are not necessarily part of the homework, but it is instructive to work them out anyhow.

Finally, a set of conventions for the whole class will be posted separaterly (in the near future) and updated as we acquire more conventions.

Single particle Irreducible representations of the Poincare group and perturbative Fock space.
Free Quantum Fields, Locality, Antiparticles and Propagators.
Standard model lagrangian. Masssive gauge boson properties.
Electroweak processes and Feynman rules.
Two to two scattering and Parity violation.
Goldstone bosons and the Higgs mechanism.
Non-linear sigma models and effective lagrangians: pions.
Pion masses and couplings to mesons.
The parton model.
The Higgs decay and one loop effects.

Conventions

Due Fridays every two weeks.

The first homework set is due on Monday, February 2nd.

The second Homework set is due Feb. 20.

The third Homework is due March 13.

The final presentations will be done in the following room:

PHELP 3523, from 2pm onwards on Friday, March 20.

g-2 of the muon (1-loop calculation and higher order uncertainties)
The standard model corrections to the rho parameter.
The Froissart bound.
The LEP bounds on the Higgs.
One loop QCD and QED corrections to the Z decay.
Rare B- decays (b to s gamma).
Backgounds for Higgs detection at LHC.
QCD sum rules
Electric dipole moment of the electron.
Electric dipole moment of the Neutron.
The Lamb shift calculation.

For most of these projects, you can begin by reading the relevant sections of the book of Donoghue, Golowich and Holstein and the particle Data Group reviews.

They will point towards other places in the literature where more complete calculations are done (also to experimental bounds).