08.128.742 QFT 3: The Standard Model and Electroweak Theory

SoSe 2024

Lecturer: Felix Yu [yu001]

Email addresses are [username] at uni-mainz.de

  • Lectures are Mondays, 2-4 pm (c.t.) and Thursdays, 2-4 pm (c.t.) in the Gallilei room, 01-128, Staudinger Weg 9
  • Discussion sessions are approximately every second Tuesday.
  • Homeworks are due at the beginning of each discussion session.
  • Exams will be oral, given at the end of the course.
  • Students must accumulate 50% of homework credits to be eligible for the exam. Homework credits are given by completing each homework assignment, and each homework assignment is weighted equally.
  • Syllabus
  • Homework 1
  • Homework 2
  • Homework 3
  • Homework 4
  • Homework 5
  • Lecture 1, Part A - Introduction and Motivation
  • Lecture 1, Part B - QFT 2 Review - EW Symmetry Breaking, R_xi Gauge
  • Lecture 1, Part C - QFT 2 Review, EWSB, Gauge Boson Masses, Fermion Masses
  • Lecture 2 - Fermion masses and Yukawa diagonalization, CKM matrix, Tree-level Higgs interactions and other fermion gauge interactions
  • Lecture 2 Exercise - Z and W decays
  • Lecture 3 - SM Currents, New Gauge Interactions, Perturbative Unitarity
  • Lecture 4 - WW Scattering, No-lose theorem for Higgs, ff to VV, Kappa-framework
  • Lecture 4 WW Scattering - WW Scattering Matrix Elements
  • Lecture 5 - ff to VV Scattering Calculuation
  • Lecture 6 - Tree-level Processes and Intro to Collider Physics, PDFs
  • Lecture 7 - Bjorken Scaling, Basic Detector Physics
  • Lecture 8 - Particle Lifetimes and Decays, Fermi Interaction Revisited
  • Lecture 9 - Parton Showers and Collider Objects, FSR Radiation and IR Divergences
  • Lecture 10 - Jets and Hadronization
  • Lecture 11 - Kinematics and Dijet Production
  • Lecture 12 - KLN Theorem, PDFs and Collinear Divergences, W-W Approximation
  • Lecture 13 - Collinear Singularities in ISR and Photon or Gluon PDFs
  • Lecture 14 - The SM at 1-Loop, FCNCs and Tree-level Vertices, EW Precision Tests
  • Lecture 15 - Mixed 1-Loop Corrections, RG Running, EW Oblique Corrections
  • Lecture 16 - Introduction to EFTs and SMEFT
  • Lecture 17 - DM EFTs
  • Lecture 18 - EFT Closure Test and Simplified Models
  • Lecture 19 - Neutrino Physics
  • Special Lecture - Chiral Lagrangian
  • Special Lecture - Chiral Anomalies
  • Special Lecture - CPV and Neutral Kaon Mixing