Lecturer:

• Massimiliano Grazzini

  • office: 36 K 76
  • Phone: +41 44 635 58 06
  • email: grazzini@physik.uzh.ch

Teaching assistants:

• Dr Jonas Lindert

  • office: 36 K 74
  • Phone: +41 44 635 4417
  • email: lindert@physik.uzh.ch

• Dr Adriano Lo Presti

  • office: 36 K 44
  • Phone: +41 44 635 5814
  • email: lopresti@physik.uzh.ch

• Dr Monalisa Patra

  • office: 36 K 30
  • Phone: +41 44 635 5771
  • email: monalisa@physik.uzh.ch

• Dr Marius Wiesemann

  • office: 36 K 74
  • Phone: +41 44 635 4417
  • email: mariusw@physik.uzh.ch

Theoretical Physics Proseminar FS2015

The proseminar takes place on fridays at 10.15am in Y36 J 33.

Assignments

DATE	TOPIC	STUDENT	TUTOR
13 MAR	1. SU(2) and SO(3) representations	Stockli	Jonas
13 MAR	2. Symmetries and the Wigner-Eckard theorem	Rocco	Monalisa
20 MAR	3. Lorentz and Poincare groups	Meili	Marius
27 MAR	4. Static quark model	Datwyler, Hotz	Adriano
17 APR	5. Antiparticles	Dahme	Adriano
8 MAY	7. Higgs mechanism	Huber, Hermann	Marius
15 MAY	8. IR singularities and KLN theorem	Nussbaumes	Jonas
15 MAY	9. Kaons	Heer	Monalisa
22 MAY	10. Noether theorem	Radonic	Jonas
22 MAY	11. Asymptotic freedom	Faeh	Monalisa

Topics (references in square brackets, see below)

• 1. SU(2), SO(3) and their irreducible representations (vectors, tensors...); [Tung], Chap.7.
• 2. Symmetries and the Wigner-Eckard theorem, isospin and pion-nucleon scattering; [Tung] 7.7-7.8 , [Perkins] 4.1-4.4.
• 3. The Lorentz group, the Poincare group and their representations; [Tung], Chap.10
• 4. The static quark model; products of group representations; Young tableaux; [Cheng], Chap.4.
• 5. Antiparticles; [Halzen], Chap. 3.
• 6. Unitarity, the optical theorem and partial wave expansions; [IZ], 5.3.1.
• 7. The Goldstone theorem, the Higgs mechanism and superconductivity; [Ryder] 8.1-8.4.
• 8. Infrared singularities and the Kinoshita-Lee-Nauemberg theorem; [Peskin] Chap.6,[Jackson], Chap. 15, [Lee], Chap. 23.5, [Weinberg] , 13.4.
• 9. Kaons and CP violation; [Perkins] 7.14, [Lee] Chap. 15, [Okun] Chap.10.
• 10. The Noether theorem, formulation, derivation and application to space-time and internal field transformations; [Goldstein] 12.7.
• 11. Asymptotic freedom; [ESW] 2.3, [Nielsen].



Bibliography - references

• [Tung] Wu-Ki Tung, Group Theory in Physics, World Scientific, 1985.
• [Perkins] Donald. H. Perkins Introduction to High Energy Physics, Addison-Wesley, 1986.
• [Lee] T. D. Lee Particle Physics and Introduction to field theory, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1981.
• [Okun] Lev Okun, Leptons and Quarks, World Scientific, 2014.
• [Jackson] John David Jackson Classical Electrodynamics, John Wiley & Sons 1999.
• [Peskin] Michael E. Peskin, Daniel. V. Schroeder, An introduction to quantum field theory, Perseus Books, 1995.
• [Weinberg] Steven Weinberg, The quantum theory of fields, vol. I: Foundations, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
• [Ryder] Lewis H. Reider, Quantum field theory, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• [Cheng] Ta-Pei Cheng and Ling-Fong Li, Gauge theory of elementary particle physics, Oxford University Press, 1984.
• [Goldstein] Herbert Goldstein, Classical Mechanics, World Scientific, 1980.
• [IZ] Claude Itzykson, Jean Bernard Zuber, Quantum field theory, Mac Graw Hill, 1980.
• [ESW] R. K. Ellis, J. Stirling, B. Webber QCD and collider physics, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• [Nielsen] N. K. Nielsen, Am. J. Phys. 49 (1981) 1171.
• [Halzen] F. Halzen, A. Martin, Quarks & Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics, Wiley, 1984.