Theoretical Particle Physics

Groups

Group	Time	Place	Tutor
Group 1	Wednesday, 16:30 - 18:15	Conference Room 2, PI	Fabian Rühle
Group 2	Thursday, 10:15 - 12:00	Room 2, AVZ	Claudia Stephan

Exercise sheets

No	Exercise sheet
00	Little Group, Massless and Massive Vector Bosons
01	Lorentz Group, Gamma Matrices
02	Weyl and Dirac Spinors
03	Representations of SU(2), Non-Abelian Gauge Symmetries
04	Gell-Mann matrices, SM Higgs effect
05	Vector- and Axial-Coupling, Fermion masses
06	CKM Matrix, Electron-Muon Scattering
07	See-Saw Mechanism, Neutrino Oscillations
08	Dynkin Diagrams and Irreps of SU(N)
09	GUT breaking, Dynkin Diagrams of SO(2N)
10	Electric Charge Renormalization in QED
11	2D Solitons, 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole

Requirements for final exam

In order to be admitted to the final exam the following requirements have to be met:

• Active participation in the tutorials
• Solutions to the exercises have to be presented at least twice in the tutorials
• Approx. 50% of the credits from all exercise sheets

Prerequesites

Group Theory, QFT, Advanced Quantum Theory

Contents

• Classical field theory, gauge theories, Higgs mechanism
• Standard model of strong and electroweak interactions
• Supersymmetry and the supersymmetric extension of the standard model
• Grand unified theories (GUTs)
• Neutrino physics
• Cosmological aspects of particle physics (dark matter, inflation)

Literature

• T. P. Cheng, L.F. Li: Gauge theories of elementary particle physics
  (Clarendon Press, Oxford 1984)
• M. Peskin, D. Schroeder: An introduction to quantum field theory
  (Addison Wesley, 1995)
• J. Wess, J. Bagger: Supersymmetry and supergravity
  (Princeton University Press 1992)