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Lecturer: | Prof. Gino Isidori ( Y36 J82 ) |
Assistant: | Dr. Dario Buttazzo ( Y36 J36 ) |
Lecture: | Friday, 10:00 - 11:45, in ETH HIT F12 |
Exercises: | Friday, 12:15 - 13:00, in ETH HIT F12 |
Module code: | PHY573, 402-0845-60L |
ECTS Credits: | 6 |
In the first part we will discuss the basic concepts of EFTs, with particular attention to the concepts of decoupling of heavy degrees of freedom, matching and renormalization, chiral Lagrangians. The Standard Model viewed as an EFT will also be discussed as a specific application. The second part of the course is devoted to Supersymmetry, starting from the discussion of the SUSY algebra and its representations, to arrive, after the presentation of the superfield formalism, to the construction of the supersymmetric version of gauge field theories. A phenomenological discussion of the mechanisms of SUSY breaking and the construction of viable supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model will also be presented.
Main topics:
Detailed list of topics for the exam (PDF, 101 KB) (with indication of bibliographic references)
Lecture | Date | Handwritten notes |
Lecture 1 | 23.09.2016 | |
Lecture 2 | 30.09.2016 | Four-fermion weak interactions (PDF, 599 KB) |
Lecture 3 | 07.10.2016 | Chiral Lagrangians (I) (PDF, 1 MB) |
Lecture 4 | 14.10.2016 | Chiral Lagrangians (II) (PDF, 1 MB) |
Lecture 5 | 21.10.2016 | The SM as an EFT (PDF, 4 MB) |
Lecture 6 | 28.10.2016 | Composite Higgs (PDF, 973 KB) |
Lecture 7 | 04.11.2016 | |
Lecture 8 | 11.11.2016 | SUSY representations & fields (PDF, 284 KB) |
Lecture 9 | 18.11.2016 | |
Lecture 10 | 25.11.2016 | The (N=1) Super Yang-Mills action (PDF, 217 KB) |
Lecture 11 | 02.12.2016 | |
Lecture 12 | 09.12.2016 | |
Lecture 13 | 16.12.2016 | Spontaneous SUSY breaking (PDF, 206 KB) |
Part I (EFT):
Part II (SUSY):