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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.