Colours, Flavours and their Consequences 7.5hp ht19/vt20

• Earlier runs: 97/98, 00/01, 04/05, 12/13, 16/17. In the period 07/08 a large part was given in the context of Lund HEP-EST (HEP-EST course list) as part of the the standard model and extensions (SME) 5p course there.
• Course evaluations: Done in an oral session for the earlier times it ran. From HT19 on done via anonymous survey: evalution HT19/VT20.
• Introduction meeting: Tuesday, 3 December 1019, at 10.15, Cassiopeia, immediately followed by the first lecture.
• Place: Cassiopeia, Astronomy building and lecture room HUB Theoretical Physics
• Language: in English if there are non-Swedish-speaking present, else in Swedish. Exercises and examination in either (or in Dutch for those who really want it).
  
• Other: We ask you to contact us if you plan to participate in the course but cannot come to the first meeting, with info on times when you are already booked up, so we can take this into consideration for any adjustments of times. All participants with a (regularly checked) e-mail account are asked to send us a short message about this (use ) so that we more easily can distribute any further information.
• Lectures : 18 weeks of one lecture including exercises, possibly some extra exercise sessions.
• Examination: Written and oral, expected some time spring 2020. Written as hand-in exercises. Examples of oral exam questions
• Contents and schedule of course: Note that this is current planning, with a certainty for adjustements:
  
  

  Lecture	Subject
  3/12/2019 Cassiopeia 10.15	Lecture 1
  9/12/2019 HUB 13.15	Exercise 1, Lecture 2
  11/12/2019 Cassiopeia 10.15	Lecture 3
  19/12/2019 Cassiopeia 13.15	Exercise 2 and 3, Lecture 4: large Nc
  27/1/2020 Cassiopeia 13.15	Unitarity triangle, CKM matrix: an overview; Matching Theories, effective field theories, power counting, exercises 4
  06/2/2020 Cassiopeia 13.15	Symmetries in the QCD Lagrangian; Heavy Quark Effective Theory; Linear and nonlinear sigma model
  12/2/2020 HUB 13.15	Linear and nonlinear sigma model, technicolour Semileptonic Decays of Heavy Quarks; Chiral Perturbation Theory I
  17/2/2020 HUB 10.15	Exercises 5
  19/2/2020 HUB 10.15	Chiral Perturbation Theory II including a one loop calculation
  24/2/2020 HUB 10.15	Semileptonic Decays: light quarks; Nonleptonic decays: mixing
  28/2/2020 HUB 13.15	Exercises
  5/3/2020 HUB 10.15	Nonleptonic Decays: Running of the effective Hamiltonian, light flavours
  9/3/2020 HUB 10.15	Nonleptonic decays heavy flavours, Lattice QCD
  12/3/2020 HUB 10.15	Exercises, lattice QCD
  17/3/2020 HUB 13.15	supersymmetry I
  20/3/2020 HUB 10.15	exercises, supersymmetry II
  27/3/2020 HUB 13.15	supersymmetry III
  6/4/2020 HUB 13.15	supersymmetry IV
  8/4/2020 HUB 13.15	exercises

  
  
• Credits: The course gives 7.5hp (equivalent to7.5 ECTS points).
• Prerequisites: This course demands FYTN04 or equivalent knowledge. It is also recommended to know the basics of field theory as in FYTN10. If you do not have that, at least a general understanding of Feynman diagrams and rules is needed.
• Literature:
  We don't really use a textbook. The book that most closely covers the content is the one by Donoghue, Golowich and Holstein listed below (referred to as DGL when mentioned), some parts I might also use Matthew Schwartz field theory book. I will update the links as the course goes on. The supersymmetry part of the course uses the lectures by S. P. Martin, hep-ph/9709356 (last update January 2016), cited below as Martin. The various parts and pieces of the course come from very different sources many available on the web or notes will be handed out. The specific weblinks are (updated continuously):
  • Prerequisites
    • Some useful notes on matrices and groups: Matrices, Matrices 2, Groups
    • A low level introduction to Feynman rules and diagrams
  • Lecture 1: Parameters of the Standard Model:
    • A recommended read before the lecture is arXiv:1911.04604
    • Lecture notes
    • DGL I.1 and II.4
    • Exercises
  • Lecture 2: Lepton masses and mixings
    • Lecture notes
    • DGL Chapter VI
    • Neutrino lectures in Lund autumn 2011 by E. Falk: Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4, Lecture 5.
    • Neutrino Lectures by David Wark in Spaatind 2012: pdf
    • nu-fit.org: a group doing global fits (but there are several)
    • The 2018/9 PDG review
    • Exercises
  • Lecture 3: QCD sum rules and analyticity
    • Lecture notes
    • DGL XI.5
    • Some introductory lectures about sum rules: de Rafael's Les Houches lectures and review by Colangelo and Khodjamirian.
    • Dispersion relations and analyticity: Introductory lecture by Zwicky.
    • Exercises
  • Lecture 4: large N_c, matching and effective theories, unitarity triangle
    • Lecture notes
    • LargeN_c
      • The lectures by Coleman in Erice are a very good starting source SLAC-PUB-2484.
      • This was started by 't Hooft in A Planar Diagram Theory for Strong Interactions, Nucl.Phys. B72 (1974) 461. Some lectures by him are Large N, hep-th/0204069.
      • Another standard reference is E. Witten, Baryons in the 1/N Expansion, Nucl.Phys. B160 (1979) 57.
      • DGL Chapter X.
      • A recent review with (very) many references is arXiv:1210.4997
    • Unitarity triangle and CKM
      • The PDG review rpp2019-rev-ckm-matrix.pdf
    • Matching and effective theories
      • DGL Section IV.9 and many of the ideas spread over Chapter IV
      • Section 4 in "Les Houches Lectures on Renormalization Theory and Effective Field Theories," Matthias Neubert, arXiv:1901.06573
      • A more general look at power counting is in arXiv:1601.07551
      • See also Ch. 22 in the book by Schwartz
    • Exercises
  • Lecture 5: Symmetries in the QCD Lagrangian; Heavy Quark Effective Theory; Linear and nonlinear sigma model, technicolour
    • Lecture notes
    • Heavy quark symmetry, heavy quark effective theory
      • DGL XIV.2
      • Book from the QCD side:A Grozin, Heavy quark effective theory
      • From the QCD side: Mikhail A. Shifman, Lectures on heavy quarks in quantum chromodynamics hep-ph/9510377
      • Book more from the effective Lagrangian side: A. Manohar and M.B.Wise, Heavy Quark Physics
      • These two together give a reasonable overview of the situation around 2000
        • N. Uraltsev, Topics in the heavy quark expansion, hep-ph/0010328
        • F. De Fazio, Weak decays of heavy quarks, hep-ph/0010007
    • Linear/Nonlinear sigma model
      • DGL I.5, IV.1
      • The linear sigma model was first introduced in Murray Gell-Mann, M Levy, The axial vector current in beta decay, Nuovo Cim. 16 (1960) 705
      • For spontaneous symmetry breaking the information given for Nambu's Nobelprize is quite useful popular and scientific with all references
    • Technicolor: course only has bare basics, for (much) more see
      • F. Sannino, Conformal Dynamics for TeV Physics and Cosmology, arXiv:0911.0931
      • C. Hill and E. Simmons, Strong dynamics and electroweak symmetry breaking, hep-ph/0203079
      • DGL XV.3
    • Exercises
  • Lecture 6/7: Chiral Perturbation Theory
    • Inclusive heavy quark semileptonic decays
      • pages 8.3 and 8.4 in lecture 5 lecture notes.
      • The sum rules and heavy quarks can be found reviewed in I. Bigi, M. Shifman and N. Uraltsev, hep-ph/9703290.
    • Lecture notes
    • DGH: IV.3, VI.1-4 and VI.1-2
    • A variety of ChPT sources is listed on my Chiral Perturbation Theory Page.
    • Most recommended is a combination of:
      • S. Scherer, Introduction to chiral perturbation theory, in Advances in Nuclear Physics, (Editors: J.W. Negele and E. Vogt, Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers New York, 2003), Vol. 27 pages 277-538, hep-ph/0210398 Note that in these good low level material is not always well distinguished from more advanced (and more difficult) comments.
      • Somewhat complimentary to the above is Section 2 of my review article J. Bijnens, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 58 (2007) 521 hep-ph/0604043
    • For the calculations remember:
      • A low level introduction to Feynman rules and diagrams
      • To understand the mass renormalization, a look at section 10.2 in Peskin-Schroeder might help (especially page 328)
    • Exercises Note: For the mass from the two point function properly see e.g. section 5.1 in hep-ph/9907264
  • Lecture 8
    • Light-quark mesonic semileptonic decays:
      • Lecture notes
      • See my review in the Handbook of QCD volume 4: hep-ph/0204068
      • DGH: VIII.1
      • Flavianet working group on leptonic and semileptonic decays: arXiv:0801.1817
    • Mixing and decays: using interference to measure stuff
      • Lecture notes
      • Sections 1.2 and 1.3 in the Babar Physics Handbook
      • DGH IX.1, XIV.3
  • Lecture 9: Nonleptonic decays
    • Lecture notes
    • DGH: Ch. VIII.2, VIII.3, VIII.4 cursory, IX.3 parts, XIV.4, XIV.5
    • Additional literature on flavour physics/CP violation:
      • Lectures at Cornell by Y. Grossman on flavour physics: "Just a taste".
      • Various school lectures on flavour physics:
        • Y. Grossman arXiv:1006.3534
        • Gedalia/PerezarXiv:1005.3106
        • A. Buras hep-ph/0505175
      • A lurid description of CP violation is I. Bigi, hep-ph/0411138.
      • For heavy quarks the Babar Physics Handbook is still a very useful reference
      • There is a (humongous) review article about BaBar/Belle physics at arxiv:1406.6311
      • An overview of CP violation and B physics is J.P. Silva, hep-ph/0410351
      • Every ICHEP conference has talks/overviews about flavour physics
      • There are two major collaborations doing updates of fitting of the CKM matrix: CKMfitter and U(nitarity)T(triangle)fit.
    • Exercises
    • Try to understand the measurement in the recent Belle paper arXiv:1203.6647.
  • Lecture 10
    • See previous lecture for the final nonleptonic part
    • Lattice QCD
      • Lattice QCD lecture notes
      • There are many lectures on lattice QCD on the arxiv: some introductory
        • G. Münster, M. Walzl hep-lat/0012005
        • M. Di Pierro hep-lat/0009001
        • C. Davies hep-lat/0508046
      • INT schools in 2007 and 2012
      • The Les Houches summer schools in 1997 and 2009
      • The yearly lattice meeting (big and specialized, not introductory)
      • Books (selection)
        • I. Montvay, G. Münster, Quantum Fields on a Lattice, Cambridge University Press
        • H. Rothe, Lattice Gauge Theories: An Introduction, World Scientific
        • J. Smit, Introduction to Quantum Fields on a Lattice, Cambridge Lecture Notes in Physics
        • C. Gattringer, C. Lang, Quantum Chromodynamics on the Lattice, Springer
  • Lecture 11
    • An exhaustive introduction to 2-component notation are the TASI 2011 lectures of S.P. Martin arXiv:1205.4076
    • An older alternative for the supersymmetry part which I used before are the lectures by Ramond, hep-th/9412234.
    • Basically equivalent are the lectures by Howard Haber in TASI 202016 arXiv:1712.05926
    • The comments about the Lorentz-group can be found partly in Peskin-Schroeder sections 3.1 and 3.2.
    • Martin, Secs. 1 and 2
    • Lorentz group and 2-component notation, Lecture notes
    • Some general properties of supersymmetric theories
    • The basic supermultiplets: chiral and gauge/vector/real
    • Susy transformations
    • Martin, Secs. 1 and 3.1
    • Lecture notes
  • Lecture 12
    • Interactions of a chiral supermultiplet
    • Gauge supermultiplet and gauge interactions
    • Soft susy breaking
    • Beginning of superspace
    • Martin, Secs. 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 4.2, 5
    • Lecture notes
  • Lecture 13
    • Superspace: restrictions needed to get to chiral and gauge supermultiplets
    • Interactions, gauge interactions and supergauge transformations
    • Supersymmetric part of MSSM
    • Martin Secs. 4.3-4.9 and 4.11, 6.1
    • Lecture notes
  • Lecture 14
    • An overview of the MSSM phenomenology
    • MSSM Lagrangian
    • Martin, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 (cursory), 6.5 (just remember that things run),
    • Martin Sec. 7: in overview, remember that the various susy breaking models give some typical (very strong) restrictions on the MSSM parameter space
    • Martin Sec. 8.1 in more detail, rest cursory
    • Martin Secs. 9 and 10: just learn to appreciate the main principles in decays and detection of susy
    • Lecture notes
    • Exercises
• Other literature:
  • Dynamics of the Standard Model, J. Donoghue, E. Golowich and B. Holstein, Cambridge University Press. A book covering basically the topics we discuss in the course and with a very similar background philosophy. Note: second edition (blue cover) Accessible at Lund University: e-book listing
  • Quantum field theory and the Standard Model, Matthew Schwartz, Cambridge University Press
  • For the supersymmetry part: the lectures by S. P. Martin, hep-ph/9709356 (last update January 2016)
  • Review of Particle Properties the general review of particle physics experiments, see their webpage.
• ps or pdf version of the official course content (old version).
• Tutors:
  Johan Bijnens: (phone (046)222 04 47, room K240), home page: http://www.thep.lu.se/~bijnens
• This page can be found at http://www.thep.lu.se/~bijnens/colours/.

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