Modern Particle Physics; M431;

Instructor: Alon Faraggi; TP120; Phone: 01517 943774; Email: alon.faraggi@liv.ac.uk

Lectures:
Tuesday 15:00 Room 104 Math Building.
Tuesday 16:00 Room 104 Math Building.
Wednesday 9:00 Room 104 Math Building.
Thursday 10:00 Room 104 Math building.

webpage: http://www.maths.liv.ac.uk/TheorPhys/people/staff/faraggi/teaching/mps/mpscourse.html

Lecture notes

These are the lecture notes of the module "Introduction to Modern Particle Physics".

Modern Particle Physics lecture notes pages 4 - 60

Modern Particle Physics lecture notes pages 61 - 137

Modern Particle Physics lecture notes pages 138 - 159

Modern Particle Physics lecture notes pages 160 - 169

Problem sets

H.W. set 1 sols set 1

H.W. set 2 sols set 2

H.W. set 3 sols set 3

H.W. set 4 sols set 4

Course Description

I. General outline:

Assessment:   The grade will be based on: final exam 100%;

II. Syllabus:

1. Lorentz and Poincare groups

2. Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics

3. Elements of quantum mechanics: Klein Gordon equation; Dirac equation

4. Basic elements of field theory: field quantization, Feynman diagram

5. Classification of elementary particles: charge, spin mass, isospin

6. Unitary groups

7. Local and global symmetries

8. The quark model of Gellman and Zweig

9. Beta decay and weak interactions

10. The Standard Model and the Higgs mechanism

11. Pati--Salam, SU(5) and SO(10) unification

12. Phenomenological aspects of GUTs

III. References

Modern Particle Physics Mark Thomson, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Quantum field theory and the Standard Model Matthew Schwartz, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
The foundations of quantum theory , Sol Wieder, New York :Academic Press, [1973]
Quarks and leptons : an introductory course in modern particle physics, Francis Halzen, Alan D. Martin, New York ; Chichester : Wiley, 1984.
Particle Physics and Cosmology P.D.B. Collins, A.D. Martin and E.J. Squires, John Wiley \& Sons Inc, 1989.
Journeys beyond the standard model,, Pierre Ramond, Perseus Books, 1999.
Grand unification with and without supersymmetry and cosmological implications,, C. Kounnas [et al.], Singapore : World Scientific, 1984
Gauge theory of elementary particle physics, Ta-Pei Cheng and Ling-Fong Li, Clarendon Press, 1984
A Modern Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Michele Maggiore, Oxford University Press, 2005.