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The Standard Model of particle physics and beyond

Avelino VicenteIFIC – CSIC / U. Valencia

ISAPP 2016“Physics and astrophysics of cosmic rays in space”

MilanoSeptember 2016

- Introduction -

Back in the good old times...

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What is this course about?

● It’s a theory course

● We will mostly concentrate on the electroweak sector of the Standard Model

Little attention will be given to the crucial experiments

Almost no discussion about the strong interactions

● The course will focus on the main physical results rather than on the details (due to the lack of time)

More information in the course notes

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Plan

● Lecture 1 : Towards the SM

● Lecture 2 : The SM

● Lecture 3 : Beyond the SM

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Plan

● Lecture 1 : Towards the SM

● Lecture 2 : The SM

● Lecture 3 : Beyond the SM

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References

“The Standard Model and beyond”, A. Vicente,https://avvicente.wordpress.com/courses/

Lecture notes

“Gauge theory of elementary particle physics”, Cheng & Li“Gauge theories of the strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions”, Quigg“Gauge theories in particle physics. A practical introduction”, Volume 2, Aitchison & Hey

Books

Articles

Standard Model: an introduction, S. F. Novaes [arXiv:hep-ph/0001283]The need for the Higgs boson in the SM, J. C. Romão [arXiv:1603.04251]The making of the Standard Model, S. Weinberg [arXiv:hep-ph/0401010]

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Let's get started!

Rules:

● You can (and should) ask questions whenever you have a doubt

● Suggestion: you can improve your skills by working out some proposed exercises

● I will assume that you already have a basic QFT training