Selected Topics in Particle Physics
Credits: 3
Type: Elective
Duration: C2
COURSE INDEX
Part I: Electroweak and Higgs Physics. BSM
The Higgs Boson. Theory and phenomenology, Neutrinos. Neutrino oscillations, BSM: Beyond Standard Model. SUSY and extra dimensions. Dark matter and Dark energy in Particle physics
Part II: S-matrix theory. QCD
Analytical properties of Feynman diagrams, Analytical continuation of scattering amplitudes through integration contour deformation, Singular potentials in non-relativistic scattering Dispersion relations. Spectroscopy, Bound, virtual and resonance states, Selected topics in QCD Effective Quantum Field Theories
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- The Higgs Hunter’s Guide, J. Gunion, H. Haber, G. Kane, S. Dawson (Addison Wesley, 1990)
- Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in pp Collisions at s1/2 = 7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments, ATLAS and CMS Collaborations (Georges Aad et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 114 (2015) 191803
- Massive neutrinos in physics and astrophysics, R.N. Mohapatra, P.B. Pal, (World Sci. Lect. Notes Phys. 72, 2004)
- Fundamentals of Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, C. Giunti and C.W. Kim (Oxford University Press, 2007)
- Extra dimensions in particle physics, F. Feruglio, Eur. Phys. J. C 33 (2004) S114