The Standard Model, with Exercises



Lecturer: Mikko Laine
Period: Feb 18 - May 29, 2019
Venue: Mon 10 - 12 / B1; Mon 14 - 15 / 119; Wed 13 - 14 / 119
Contents: 18.02.: Introduction. Basic concepts.   Sheet 1.
25.02.: QED. Feynman rules.   Sheet 2.
04.03.: Muon pair production.   Sheet 3.
11.03.: Weak interactions. Symmetries and conservation laws.   Sheet 4.
18.03.: Fermi model.   Sheet 5.
25.03.: Problems of the Fermi model.   Sheet 6.
01.04.: Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model.   Sheet 7.
08.04.: Vector bosons.   Sheet 8.
15.04.: Scalars, fermions.   Sheet 9.
29.04.: Quark mixing, flavour physics.   Sheet 10.
06.05.: QCD. Lagrangian, symmetries.   Sheet 11.
13.05.: Anomalies.   Sheet 12.
20.05.: Beyond the Standard Model. Grand Unification.   Sheet 13.
27.05.: Neutrino masses.   Exam themes.


Evaluation: 10.04.: Results.