General Information

Format
The course will consist of the main lectures (3 hours per week) plus 1 hour per week for additional material and exercises.


Time
For the main lectures: Wed 9-11, Fri 9-10
For the additional material and exercises: Fri 10-11


Location
großer Hörsaal, Philosophenweg 12

Language
The course will be given in English.

Contents

The course will cover the Standard Model of Particle Physics from the theoretical and from the experimental perspective. The gauge theories of electroweak and strong interactions and their experimental tests will be described. We will discuss the present status of the Standard Model, open experimental questions, and some directions of beyond the Standard Model physics.

The course will include the necessary relativistic quantum field theory but with emphasis on applications rather than formal details.

See here for a more detailed outline.

Course Material

Copies of all transparencies can be found in the library (Philosophenweg 16). As we go along we will also try to provide ps- or pdf-files of transparencies (if we have them) as well as links to additional material here.

Revision notes covering the essential material from quantum mechanics and special relativity can be found here.

Here are the theoretical chapters on
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
Relativistic Quantum Fields
Gauge Fields and the Standard Model (updated Jan 6)
Renormalization (updated Jan 6)
Quantum Chromodynamics (updated Jan 8)


Overview of past, present and future particle colliders.

Material related to the course:
What have Experiments Taught us? (pdf file of talk by G. Rolandi at Trends in Physics, Budapest 2002)
Pages of the LEP Electroweak Working Group

Exercises

We propose that you try to solve these examples and problems.
The solutions of selected problems will be explained in the "Additional Material and Exercises" part of the course.

Prerequisites

Physik V (Nuclear and Particle Physics) and Theoretische Physik III (Quantum Mechanics) or equivalent. Revision notes cover the essential material from quantum mechanics and special relativity.

The necessary basics of relativistic quantum mechanics will be provided in the "Additional Material" part of the course.

Recommended Books

There are many good books on almost every aspect of the Standard Model and of gauge field theory in general. It is probably a matter of taste which you prefer. See here for a list of books which we propose.

Contact

Carlo Ewerz, email:carlo@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de
Johanna Stachel, email:stachel@physi.uni-heidelberg.de