Theoretical Particle Physics

Winter Term 2019/2020

Lecturer: Prof. Herbi Dreiner

Lecture: Mo 4 - 6 p.m., Tu 4 - 6 p.m., HS I, PI

Head Tutors:

Max Berbig, Room W 2.013, berbig(AT)physik.uni-bonn.de
Saurabh Nangia, Room W 2.014, nangia(AT)physik.uni-bonn.de

Exercises:

Archil Suladze, Room W 2.016, suladze(AT)th.physik.uni-bonn.de
Amitayus Banik, Room W 2.022, abanik(AT)physik.uni-bonn.de
Rahul Mehra, Room W 2.024, rmehra(AT)th.physik.uni-bonn.de
Yong Xu, Room W 2.024, xu(AT)physik.uni-bonn.de

News

On this webpage, you can find all information regarding the lecture "Theoretical Particle Physics" WS19/20 .
The weekly tutorials will start on the 17th/18th of October.
Since Friday November 1st is a public holiday, there will be no tutorials on that day! We encourage you to attend the tutorials on Thursday. If you can't attend those, please contact your tutor.
There will be no lecture on Monday December 2nd. You can hand in the exercise sheets until 16:00 in front of our offices 2.013/2.014.
There will be no lecture on Monday December 23rd.
There will be no lecture on Monday January 13th.
The date for the exam has been fixed to Januray 31st and it will take place at HS1 Botanik, Nußallee 4, 14:30. All exam dates.
There will be a session, where you can ask your questions about the lecture and the exercise sheets on Tuesday, January 28th during the regular lecture time.
The retake exam originally planned to take place on March 30th has been resheduled to take place on June 4th from 14:00-17:00 at the Wolfgang Paul Hörsaal (WP). Please contact your tutors for all relevant information.
The post-exam review will be on ?.
There will be a course on "Theoretical Particle Astrophysics" in the spring term. The course will take place online due to the pandemic.

Exercise Groups

Tutor	Time	Venue
Rahul Mehra	Th: 08:00-10:00.	Ü22, 0.009, AVZ1
Archil Suladze	Th: 10:00-12:00	Ü5, 0.021, AVZ1
Yong Xu	Fr: 10:00-12:00	Ü22, 0.009, AVZ1
Amitayus Banik	Fr: 13:00-15:00	BCTP, Besprechungsraum

The exercise sheets will be released during the lecture on Tuesdays and have to be submitted in the lecture on Monday or until 16:00 in front of our offices 2.013/2.014.
The exercise sheets can be handed-in in groups of at most 2 people.
In order to be admitted to the final exam you need 50% of the available points on the exercise sheets.

Exercise Sheets

#	Due	Link
0	Tutorials	Class Exercise: Introduction to Feynman diagrams
1	Mo, Oct. 21	Exercise Sheet 1: Introduction to Feynman diagrams and basics of the Lorentz group
2	Mo, Oct. 28	Exercise Sheet 2: Gamma matrices and the Yukawa interaction
3	Mo, Nov. 4	Exercise Sheet 3: Lorentz transformations of spinors and spinor solutions to the Dirac equation
4	Mo, Nov. 11	Exercise Sheet 4: Abelian gauge theories: Construction of Scalar QED and a diagramatic calculation in spinor QED
5	Mo, Nov. 18	Exercise Sheet 5 (Sign mistake in H.5.2 (b) corrected!): Goldstone's theorem and the Higgs mechanism
6	Mo, Nov. 25	Exercise Sheet 6: Charged lepton masses and Higgs decay into charged leptons; Majorana mass terms and the Weinberg-operator
7	Mo, Dec. 2	Exercise Sheet 7: Interactions between fermions and the electroweak gauge bosons; Angles and phases of the CKM matrix
8	Mo, Dec. 9	Exercise Sheet 8: Facing the Phase Space & Non-renormalizable interactions: Fermi's theory
9	Mo, Dec.16	Exercise Sheet 9: Propagators and polarization vectors for massive gauge bosons & Calculation of the Z-boson decay width
10	Tue, Jan. 7	Exercise Sheet 10: Pion-Decay & Goldstone-Boson equivalence theorem in the Higgs-strahlung process & BONUS: Group Theorey, Young tableaux
11	Mo, Jan. 20	Exercise Sheet 11: CP violation of the weak interaction & Calculational methods for loop diagrams

Exam

The date for the exam has been fixed to Januray 31st and it will take place at HS1 Botanik, Nußallee 4, 14:30.

There will be a session, where you can ask questions about the lecture and the exercise sheets on Tuesday, January 28th during the regular lecture time.

The retake exam originally planned to take place on March 30th has been resheduled for June 4th. It will take place from 14:00-17:00 at the Wolfgang Paul Hörsaal (WP). Please contact your tutors for the details.

The post-exam review will be on ?.

Literature

T.P Cheng, L.F. Li, "Gauge Theory of elementary particle physics"
F. Halzen, A.D. Martin, "Quarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics "
M.D. Schwartz, "Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model"
M.E. Peskin, D.V. Schroeder, "An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory "