course | dates | credits |
Beyond the Standard Model | Jan 10 - Mar 18 | 9 |
teachers | schedule | term |
Aleksandr Azatov | 10:00 - 11:30 | 2 |
Program:
- The Standard Model as an effective theory
- Accidental symmetries of the SM
- Lepton number violating operators and neutrino masses
- Baryon number violating operators and proton decay
- Flavour violating operators and FCNC
- Electroweak precision tests and the little hierarchy problem
- Beyond the Higgs sector of the Standard Model
- Experimental status
- CCWZ description of electroweak symmetry breaking:
- - Higgs mechanism and custodial symmetry
- - perturbative unitarity and recovering the SM
- The Higgs as a pNGB
- Two Higgs doublet model
- Grand unification
- SU(5):
- - SM embedding, gauge lagrangian and proton decay
- - SU(5) breaking
- - Higgs and flavour
- - EW symmetry breaking, 2-3 splitting problem, hierarchy problem
- - gauge coupling unification
- SO(10)
- The hierarchy problem
- Supersymmetry
- The minimal SM extension (MSSM):
- Lagrangian, R-parity, benchmarks
- Electroweak symmetry breaking
- Spectrum and mixings
- The flavour problem and the mass insertion approximation
- Example of interaction terms: LSP direct detection
- Proton decay: D = 4, 5, 6
- Collider phenomenology
- Optional
- Supersymmetry recap
Prerequisites:
- QFT course
- SM course
- Supersymmetry course or recap
Books:
Online Resources:
Filename Size (bytes) Date Modified
- Supersymmetry recap