FYTN04 Theoretical Particle Physics, 7.5 ECTS
IMPORTANT: NO LONGER VALID
From autumn 2018 see FYTN04; in autumn 2018 taught by Leif Lönnblad and Malin Sjödahl.
Fall 2017
Schedule, literature, etc.
This page can be found at http://home.thep.lu.se/~bijnens/fytn04.
The official home page for the course can be found at http://www.thep.lu.se/english/education/courses/theoretical_particle_physics/
Official course content in Swedish: http://kursplaner.lu.se/svenska/FYTN04.pdf
Translation to English: http://kursplaner.lu.se/english/FYTN04_english.pdf.
Introduction Meeting
Monday 30 October 2017, 10.15, Andromeda, Astronomy building. Lectures on Monday, Wednesday and Friday 10.15-12.00 in the same room (with some exceptions) The schedule can be found below, so you can see how the course goes.Exercises
Take home exam
For those we did not do or failed the take home exam:
Contact us as soon as possible and in any case before 23 January 2017 if you want to do the take-home exam, second go
- handing out 9.00 Thursday 25 January 2017, by email or you fetch it here.
- return Thursday 1 February 12.00 (noon)
- results presented later that week
- oral in the next week
Oral exam
This exam is meant to test understanding with a list of typical questions.Schedule and course contents
Note: this is preliminary autumn 2017 planning. Current planning with reservation for adjustments (w45 means week 45 in the Swedish week counting. Lectures are at 10.15 in room Andromeda (Astronomy building) on Monday, Wednesday and Friday unless noted otherwise. Links are to supplementary information. We will jump around a little in the book to keep the flavour of the course intact. The square brackets mention relevant chapters/sections in the book.
Week Date Content w44 Monday 30/10 Particles and forces [Kane: ch 1] [Thomson: 1.1,2.1,2.2]
Particle chart, Matrices 1, Matrices 2Wednesday 1/11 Lagrange functions and relativistic notation [Kane: ch 2]
[Thomson: 5,9.1,App E,6.1,17.2]
Field theoryFriday 3/11 Gauge invariance [Kane: ch 3, 4, App A, B]
[Thomson: App F,10.1,10.2,10.3,17.3] Group theory, Nonabelian Field Strengthw45 Monday 6/11 The Dirac equation [Kane: Ch 5] [Thomson: ch4,App. B,6.4] Wednesday 8/11 The Standard Model for electroweak interactions
and Quantum ChromoDynamics [Kane: Ch 6, 7]
[Thomson: 11.1,11.2,11.3,15.2,15.3] Note in HUBFriday 10/11 Exercises w46 Monday 13/11 The Higgs mechanism [Kane: ch 8]
[Thomson: App D,17.1,17.3,17.4,17.5]Wednesday 15/11 The Standard Model in a nutshell, Important formulae
Cross sections, decay widths and lifetimes [Kane: ch 9, 10]
[Thomson: 3.1,3.2,3.3,3.4,3.5,A.1,A.3,15.1.1,15.4,16.1,16.2,16.3]Friday 17/11 Exercises w47 Monday 20/11 Determination of the parameters of the Standard Model
[Kane: ch 10, 11] [Thomson: 8.4.1,8.4.3,10.9.1,10.9.2,
16.2.2,10.5.1,10.5.2,11.5.1,16.5]Wednesday 22/11 Experimental background [Kane: ch 12, 13, 14, 15]
[Thomson: 1.2,1.3,1.4,17.6,17.7]
List of accelerators, ATLAS and CMS detectors, LHC+HiggsFriday 24/11 Exercises w48 Monday 27/11 Strong interactions [Kane: 17, 18]
[Thomson: 10.4,9.3,9.4,9.6.2,9.6.3,9.6.4,10.8]Wednesday 29/11 Electroweak and strong interactions [Kane: 16, 19]
[Thomson: 8.1,8.3,8.4,8.5.1,8.6,12.2.3,10.5,10.6] Running αSFriday 1/12 Exercises w49 Monday 4/12 Neutrino masses and oscillations [Kane: 24] [Thomson: 13]
Overview lecture and ReviewWednesday 6/12 Grand unification and Supersymmetry [Kane: ch 22, 23, 26] [Thomson: 18.1,18.2.2,18.2.3,18.2.4] and superstrings Friday 8/12 Exercises w50 Monday 11/12 Quark masses and quark mixing, CP violation [Kane: ch 14, 20, 21]
[Thomson: 14] Extra notes on CKM matrix Mixing and DecaysWednesday 13/12 The Cosmology and Astrophysics connection [Kane: 25]
[Thomson: 18.2.1]Friday 15/12 Exercises Literature
New book starting autumn 2017 Gordon Kane, Modern Elementary Particle Physics, Cambridge Universirty Press, 2017, ISBN 9781107165083. Note second edition.
Lecture notes
In addition to the above notes, overview lecture notes exist for (mainly) the second part of the course: Phenomenology part. Continuously updated 2017, these contain as well some parts not present in the second edition of the book.Other Literature
There are many books on particle physics. We are not aware of any other good book at the same level and with the same philosophy as Kane.
A book that we used for two years that is better for the contents of the phenomenology part but not so good for the standard model construction part is:
Mark Thomson, Modern Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-03426-6. There is an electronic resource page belonging to this book including a list of known misprints and some hints for the exercises. Some more misprints.Two books that cover the same and a little more ground and which both are good complements to the course book are
- D. Griffiths, Introduction to Elementary Particles, Second, Revised Edition, Wiley 2008.
- W.N. Cottingham and D.A. Greenwood, The Standard Model of Particle Physics, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press 2007.
The following books can be useful literature in addition to the main course book and those listed above. The last one is available for free.
- Hans-Uno Bengtsson, Gösta Gustafson and Lena Gustafson, Kvarken och universum, Corona 1994, gives a good but outdated introduction (in Swedish). Prior knowledge at this level is recommended.
- B.R. Martin and G. Shaw, Particle Physics, Wiley 2008 (third edition) close in level to Kane, but somewhat lower and with fewer formulae.
- Francis Halzen and Alan D. Martin, Quarks and Leptons: An introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics, Wiley 1984, offers an alternative presentation, at a higher level than this course, and with full calculations.
- Chris Quigg, Gauge theories of the strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions, Benjamin/Cummins 1983, is also more advanced. (paperback version Westview Press 1997)
- Donald Perkins, Introduction to High Energy Physics, Addison-Wesley 2000 (fourth edition), gives another somewhat more detailed presentation with more experimental background.
- Frank Close, An Introduction to Quarks and Partons, Academic Press 1979, is a more thorough but easily accessible description of the QCD part of the course.
- Luis Anchordoqui and Francis Halzen, Lessons in Particle Physics available free as arXiv:0906.1271, somewhat higher level than the course and with full calculations.
Lecturer
Johan Bijnens and Leif LönnbladContact
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Course Evaluation
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Links
- Particle Data Book
- Major laboratories
- Introductory: (also via the laboratory websites)
- Introductory website with further links
- Swedish physicists society: section for particle and astroparticle physics
- Quarknet: a resource for high school teachers