Standard Model of Particle Physics

summer term 2021
Lecturer: Schöning Westhoff
Link to LSF
56 participants

 

Lecture course and tutorials for Master students

Lectures: Mondays and Wednesdays 09:15 - 11:00, online on zoom.

 

What you will learn:

In this course, we will discuss the fundamental building blocks of matter and their interactions. What we call the Standard Model is a precise description of these interactions, building on quantum electrodynamics, the electroweak theory and quantum chromodynamics. At its core is the Higgs mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking that governs much of what we observe at particle experiments.

A big part of the course is devoted to the phenomenology of the Standard Model. You will learn how to use quantum field theory to make predictions for particle colliders like the LHC and how to test them. We will discuss each topic from a theoretical and an experimental point of view, so you will get a feeling for how theory and experiment play together in exploring the fundaments of Nature.

 

What you should know:

This course is a specialisation course for master students. It is assumed that you have successfully completed the PEP4 bachelor course (or equivalent). In addition you should have taken at least one (better both) of the follwoing courses: Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory I.

Exam

The exam will be taken as an off-site exam during the last semester week.

 

Downloads:

exam sheet

supplementary material

exam solution


Return: July 23 before midnight.
 

  • The exam will be available for download on this website. You have one week to work on the problems at home.
  • To be admitted to the exam, you need to have collected 60% of the credit points on the exercise sheets.
  • Once you have completed the exam, please upload your solution via this website (as you did for the exercise sheets) in a single PDF file.
  • To pass the exam you need to collect at least 50% of the total number of available points. For a passed exam you will receive 8 ECTS points.
  • You need to take the exam by yourself without the help of any other person. You have to confirm this with your signature on the exam sheet. Without your signature the exam is invalid.
  • You may use any resources you can find, including your lecture notes, books, and the internet.
  • The results of the exam will become available in September at the latest. We will notify you by email. Once the results are available, you can review your exam by contacting your tutor if you wish to do this.
  • In case you fail the exam, we will offer you an oral exam as a second chance. Attending the written exam is mandatory to be eligible to take the oral exam. Should you be ill during the week of the written exam, you need to bring a medical exam from your doctor in order to be eligible for the oral exam.
  • In case you encounter any technical problems when downloading the exam or uploading your solution, please contact us by email.

Zoom connection and chat

Lectures: Mon & Wed, 9:15 - 11:00

Link: https://zoom.us/j/4752215323?pwd=Rk5ZYjRDZ1pyNm8xc2xWOWhXUUF5dz09
Meeting-ID: 475 221 5323
Code: 089259

Chat: https://uebungen.physik.uni-heidelberg.de/chat/group/ss21-standard-model

 

Tutorial 1 (Nele Volmer): Tue, 14:15 - 16:00

Link: https://zoom.us/j/4752215323?pwd=Rk5ZYjRDZ1pyNm8xc2xWOWhXUUF5dz09
Meeting-ID: 475 221 5323
Code: 089259

Chat: https://uebungen.physik.uni-heidelberg.de/chat/group/ss21-standard-model-1

 

Tutorial 2 (Sebastian Bruggisser): Wed, 14:15 - 16:00

Link: https://zoom.us/j/4752215323?pwd=Rk5ZYjRDZ1pyNm8xc2xWOWhXUUF5dz09
Meeting-ID: 475 221 5323
Code: 089259

Chat: https://uebungen.physik.uni-heidelberg.de/chat/group/ss21-standard-model-2

 

Tutorial 3 (Ting Cheng): Wed, 14:15 - 16:00

Link: https://zoom.us/j/3805850124?pwd=OEk1ZGhFd1JPdklIQXUvSWtoZ1Y3dz09
Meeting-ID: 380 585 0124
Code: 110808

Chat: https://uebungen.physik.uni-heidelberg.de/chat/group/ss21-standard-model-3

 

Tutorial 4 (Christof Sauer): Wed, 16:15 - 18:00

Link: https://zoom.us/j/3237162554?pwd=QjNTTksxWWVCU1ZFL0d6RjMzQjFYUT09
Meeting-ID: 323 716 2554
Code: 136946

Chat: https://uebungen.physik.uni-heidelberg.de/chat/group/ss21-standard-model-4

Schedule

April 12  L01 (E): Introduction and key experiments

April 14  L02 (E): Relativistic kinematics and phase space

April 19  L03 (T): From the Lagrangian to observables  -- annotated slides

April 21  L04 (T): Bosons and fermions -- annotated slides

April 26  L05 (T): Abelian gauge theory and quantum electrodynamics -- annotated slides

April 28  L06 (E): Tests of quantum electrodynamics (1)

May 03  L07 (E): Tests of quantum electrodynamics (2)

May 05  L08 (T): Symmetries -- annotated slides

May 10  L09 (E): Tests of discrete symmetries

May 12  L10 (T): Non-abelian gauge theory and weak interactions -- annotated slides

May 17  L11 (T): Electroweak symmetry breaking -- annotated slides

May 19  L13 (E): Electroweak precision tests (1)

May 24               Pentecost - no lecture

May 26  L14 (E): Electroweak precision tests (2)

May 31  L12 (T): Electroweak physics at high energies -- annotated slides

June 02 L15 (T): Higgs production at the Large Hadron Collider -- annotated slides

June 07 L16 (E): Higgs phenomenology (1)

June 09 L17 (E): Higgs phenomenology (2)

June 14 L18 (T): Quark flavor physics -- annotated slides

June 16 L19 (E): Tests of flavor mixing and CP violation

June 21 L20 (T): Lepton flavor physics -- annotated slides

June 23 L21 (E): Neutrinos and lepton flavor violation

June 28 L22 (T): Quantum chromodynamics (1) -- annotated slides

June 30 L23 (T): Quantum chromodynamics (2) -- annotated slides

July 05  L24 (T): Quantum chromodynamics (3) -- annotated slides

July 07  L25 (E): Quantum chromodynamics at colliders (1)

July 12  L26 (E): Quantum chromodynamics at colliders (2)

July 14  L27 (T): Beyond the standard model -- annotated slides

July 19 & 21       exam week - no lectures

Literature

Bjorken, Drell: Relativistische Quantenmechanik (in German)
Peskin, Schröder: An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
Itzykson, Zuber: Quantum Field Theory
Schwartz: Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model
Langacker: The Standard Model and Beyond
Cottingham, Greenwood: An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics
Willenbrock: Symmetries of the Standard Model
Barger, Philips: Collider Physics
Halzen, Martin: Quarks and Leptons
Grossman: Introduction to flavor physics
Georgi: Lie algebras in particle physics
Ch. Berger: Elementary Particle Physics
P.Schmüser: Feynman Graphen und Eichtheorien (German)

Tutorials

Registration for the tutorials will open on Monday, April 12.

Each Monday you will find a new exercise sheet on this website, starting on April 19. You have one week to solve the exercises. Please upload your solution in one single PDF file until 12:00 am (noon) on the following Monday via the website. In case this does not work for you, please send your solution to your tutor by email:


Nele Volmer: volmer@mpi-hd.mpg.de

Sebastian Bruggisser: bruggisser@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de

Ting Cheng: ting.cheng@mpi-hd.mpg.de

Christof Sauer: csauer@physi.uni-heidelberg.de

 

You do not need to hand in sheet 00.


Each student needs to hand in their own solution, even if you have solved the exercises in a team. We encourage and expect you to actively take part in the tutorials. Each week your tutor will select a few of you to present their solutions to the other students.

To be admitted to the exam you need to try and solve at least 60% of the exercises.


The first tutorials will take place on Tuesday, April 20 and Wednesday, April 21. Your tutor will give you an introduction to important general concepts you will need for the lectures. There will also be time to discuss any questions your might have.

To connect among yourselves and work on the exercise sheets, check out these free online tools that the university provides for you:

https://urz.uni-heidelberg.de/en/2020-03-16-digital-tools

Practice groups

  • Group 1 (Nele Volmer)
    18 participants
    Philos.-weg 12 / R 070, Tue 14:15 - 16:00
  • Group 2 (Sebastian Bruggisser)
    15 participants
    Philos.-weg 12 / R 056, Wed 14:15 - 16:00
  • Group 3 (Ting Cheng)
    11 participants
    Philos.-weg 12 / R 060, Wed 14:15 - 16:00
  • Group 4 (Christof Sauer)
    12 participants
    online only, Wed 16:15 - 18:00
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Standard Model of Particle Physics
summer term 2021
Schöning Westhoff
Link zum LSF
56 participants
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