Syllabus

Particle Physics II

Avner Soffer

The course focuses on particle physics measurements and how they tell us about the

standard model and physics beyond the SM.

• LHC physics

      o LHC parameters, characteristics of hadron collisions

       o ATLAS detector

      o Motivation for TeV physics

      o SUSY concepts and analysis examples

       o Higgs physics, Higgs couplings, searches for new scalars

• Flavor physics

       o High-scale sensitivity of flavor physics

       o Baryon asymmetry of the universe

       o The CKM matrix, CP violation in the standard model

       o CP violation measurements

       o Meson mixing

• Neutrino physics

         o Solar neutrino deficit, Super-Kamiokande and SNO experiments

         o Neutrino oscillations theory, quantum-measurement considerations

         o Long-baseline and reactor experiments

          o CP violation

          o Right-handed neutrinos

References:

• For energy-frontier physics:

    o 1709.04533, Matthew Schwartz, TASI lectures on collider physics

           § For basic LHC kinematics, etc.

   o Peskin, SLAC-PUB-13079

          § For motivation for TeV-scale physics

o http://pdg.lbl.gov/2017/reviews/rpp2017-rev-susy-1-theory.pdf

o Martin, A SUSY Primer, hep-ph:9709356

       § For SUSY review

• For flavor physics:

     o Zoltan Ligeti TASI lecture, 1502.01372

      o PDG flavor review  http://pdg.lbl.gov/2019/reviews/rpp2018-rev-ckm-matrix.pdf

      o Thomson, “Modern Particle Physics”, chapter 14

• For neutrino physics:

      o Thomson chapter 13.

      o Kayser, 1110.3047.

      o Giunti and Kim, “Fundamentals of Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics”,

       particularly chapters 7 and 8. This is much broader and deeper than we need.

       It is available from the TAU library at

       https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tau/detail.action?docID=415331 .

       In addition, we will use many papers, particularly on experimental results.