Electroweak Physics  

Winter 2012/13  
 
B. Jäger, M. Schott

  Infos and Material  

Time & Location:
Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 10:15, seminar room K

Information:
This course is aimed at PhD students of the Graduate School "Symmetry Breaking". Master and diploma students who have already attended lectures in particle physics or quantum field theory are also welcome.


Contents:
After introducing the basic theoretical concepts of the electroweak sector of the Standard Model of elementary particles, the most important physics results obtained at the LEP, Tevatron and LHC colliders will be discussed. Special emphasis is put on the properties of the electroweak gauge bosons, which allow an indirect access to unmeasured physics parameters of the Standard Model. In addition, the latest results of searches for the Higgs boson are presented.


Selected References:
  • F. Halzen, A. Martin, Quarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics, John Wiley & Sons (1984).
  • C. Quigg, Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions, Addison Wesley (1983).
  • A. Djouadi, The anatomy of electroweak symmetry breaking I, arXiv:hep-ph/0503172.
  • E. Leader, E. Predazzi, An introduction to gauge theories and modern particle physics, Vols.1&2, Cambridge University Press (1996).
  • M. Böhm, A. Denner, H. Joos, Gauge Theories of the Strong and Electroweak Interactions, Teubner Verlag (2001).
  • A. Lahiri, P. B. Pal, A First Book of Quantum Field Theory, Alpha Science International Ltd. (2000).
  • R. K. Ellis, W. J. Stirling, B. R. Webber, QCD and collider physics, Cambridge Univ. Press (1996).