Professor Manuel Drees

Lectures

WS 18/19:

Theoretical Particle Physics 1

Time and Place : Monday, 16:15 to 18:00, and Tuesday, 16:15 to 17:00, both times HS 1, PI (i.e., in the big lecture room).

First Lecture: October 8, 2018.

Last Lecture: January 29, 2019.

Tutorials:
Group 1 : Monday 14:15 to 16:00, AVZ, room 0.009 (Ü22); Mahsa Barzegarkeshteli
Group 2 : Tuesday 08:15 to 10:00, AVZ, room 0.033 (Ü2); Rahul Mehra
Group 3 : Thursday 10:15 to 12:00, AVZ, room 1.025 HS116); Yong Xu
Group 4 : Friday 16:15 to 18:00, PI, conference room 2; Meng Shi
First session : The second week of classes.
The tutors are:
Mahsa Barzegarkeshteli (Wegelerstr.10, email s6mabarz "at" physik.uni-bonn.de);
Rahul Mehra (Wegelerstr.10, email rmehra "at" th.physik.uni-bonn.de);
Shi Meng (Wegelerstr.10, email shimrac "at" outlook.com);
Yong Xu (Wegelerstr.10, email s6yoxuuu "at" uni-bonn.de);
Zhongyi Zhang (Wegelerstr.10, email shadowquark "at" outlook.com).
The assignment sheets can be downloaded here.
Only students who have done at least 50% of the homework of this class will be permitted to take the final exam! In order to check this, the tutors will hand out a table containting the names of the participants in this group as well as the homework problems of this week. You should mark the problems that you have solved. Using this table, the tutor will call students to the board, giving you the opportunity to show your solution to the group. The solution need not be perfect in order to count towards your 50%, but you need to have made an honest effort at solving the problem.
If for some reason you cannot attend the tutorial you can also hand in, or send, written solutions to your tutor; please at most two people per solution. These will be counted towards your 50% only if they have been sent before 8:00 a.m. on Monday of this week (since the solutions will be presented in the tutorials).

The lecture is aimed at students interested in experimental and/or theoretical particle physics. Prior knowledge of relativistic quantum mechanics will be assumed. Knowledge of some concepts of quantum field theory is helpful, but will not be assumed.

This lecture covers essentially the Standard Model of particle physics. More specifically, the following topics will be covered:
0) Preliminaries (notation etc)
1) Relativistic wave equations
2) Lagrangians and Feynman rules
3) The gauge principle: QED
4) QCD
5) Electroweak interactions

Literature:
Aitchison and Hey, Gauge theories in Particle Physics , vols. 1 and 2, is a modern, comprehensive treatment that starts from scratch.
Halzen and Martin, Quarks and Leptons , remains a classic.
Peskin and Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, treats the underlying formalism, but also contains many particle physics applications.

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