Weiterführende Konzepte in der Elementarteilchenphysik

Graduiertenkolleg Vorlesung für das Sommersemester 2010

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Haisch
Dr. Rainer Wanke

Time

Tue. 10:00 - 12:00 a.m.
Thu. 10:00 - 12:00 a.m.

First lecture on Tuesday, April 13th, 10:00 a.m.

Place

Newton-Raum (01-122, Staudingerweg 7)

The course is aimed at advanced pre-diploma, diploma, and graduate students specialising in particle physics. The course will be taught in English and will consist of 28 lectures.

The following topics will be covered:

Open questions in the Standard Model
Electroweak precision measurements with applications
Search for new fermions and gauge bosons
Extra dimensions and dynamical symmetry breaking
Rare decays of hadrons and leptons
Detection of dark matter
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Lecture notes:

Notes 1 (theory)
Notes 2 (theory)
Notes 3 (theory)
Notes 4 (theory)
Notes 5 (theory)
Notes 1 (experiment)
Notes 2 (experiment)
Notes 3 (experiment)
Notes 6 (theory)
Notes 4 (experiment)
Notes 5 (experiment)
Notes 6 (experiment)
Notes 7 (experiment)
Notes 8 (experiment)
Notes 7 (theory)
Notes 9 (experiment)
Notes 10 (experiment)
Notes 8 (theory)
Notes 11 (experiment)
Notes 12 (experiment)
Notes 13 (experiment)
Notes 9 (theory)

Slides:

Slides 1 (theory)
Slides 2 (theory)
Slides 3 (theory)
Slides 1 (experiment)
Slides 2 (experiment)
Slides 3 (experiment)
Slides 4 (theory)
Slides 4 (experiment)
Slides 5 (experiment)
Slides 6 (experiment)
Slides 7 (experiment)
Slides 5 (theory)
Slides 8 (experiment)
Slides 9 (experiment)
Slides 10 (experiment)
Slides 6 (theory)
Slides 7 (theory)
Slides 8 (theory)
Slides 9 (theory)
Slides 11 (experiment)
Slides 10 (theory)
Slides 11 (theory)

Literature:

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arXiv:hep-ph/0606054.
[4] S. M. Carroll, ``The Cosmological Constant,''
Living Rev. Relativity 3, 1 (2001).
[5] S. P. Martin, ``A Supersymmetry Primer,'' arXiv:hep-ph/9709356.
[6] R. Sundrum, ``To the fifth dimension and back. (TASI 2004),'' arXiv:hep-th/0508134.
[7] M. Schmaltz and D. Tucker-Smith, ``Little Higgs Review,''
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``Axigluon as Possible Explanation for ppbar -> ttbar Forward-Backward Asymmetry,'' Phys. Lett. B 683, 294 (2010) [arXiv:0911.2955 [hep-ph]].
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Phys. Lett. B 686, 146 (2010) [arXiv:1001.5321 [hep-ph]].
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[20] I. Low, R. Rattazzi and A. Vichi,
``Theoretical Constraints on the Higgs Effective Couplings,''
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