PostGrad/PostDoc Discussion Group, Liverpool Theoretical Physics
Our internal PostGrad/PostDoc Discussion Group will happen approx. every week (as announced) on Wednesdays 2:30pm/Fridays 3:30pm in our coffee/seminar room 117.
* We will follow `Grand Unified Theories and Proton Decay' (by Paul Langacker)
- 1st meeting in the academic year 2011/2012,
3th February 2012:
- Organisation matters, introduction to proton decay.
- 2nd meeting, 10 February:
- Generalities of spontaneous symmetry breaking.
- Main reference: Langacker chapter 2.3.3 (and preceding materials in chapter 2).
- 3rd meeting, 17 February:
- More spontaneous symmetry breaking, and electroweak interactions.
- Main reference: Langacker chapter 2.4.
- 4th meeting, 29 February:
- Possible extensions of the electroweak sector and related constraints/issues
- Main reference: Langacker chapter 2.4.4
- 5th meeting, 7 March:
- The Georgi-Glashow model.
- Main reference: Langacker chapter 3.3.
- 6th meeting, 14 March:
- The Georgi-Glashow model (cont.).
- Main reference: Langacker chapter 3.3.
- 7th meeting, 21 March:
- Models beyond the Georgi-Glashow.
- Main reference: Langacker chapter 3.4.
- Organisers: All participants! (PostDocs and Adv. Fellows will try to coordinate, send emails and update this simple weblink regularly.)
- Previous meetings in the year 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09 and in 2010/11.
Last modified: 12 Mar 2012, CHK.
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