Unit STANDARD MODEL DYNAMICS
- Course
- Physics
- Study-unit Code
- GP005519
- Curriculum
- Fisica delle particelle elementari
- Teacher
- Simone Pacetti
- Teachers
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- Simone Pacetti
- Hours
- 42 ore - Simone Pacetti
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Sector
- FIS/02
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- • The Higgs mechanism
• Besic concepts of the Standard Model
• The electro-weak interaction
• The Quantum Chromodynamics
• The anomalies of the Standard Model
• Neutrinos
• Renormalization - Reference texts
- "Dynamics of the Standard Model", Second edition
John F. Donoghue, Eugene Golowich and Barry R. Holstein
Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and
Cosmology.
"Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions",
Second edition,
Chris Quigg
Advanced Book Classics, Westview Press. - Educational objectives
- Knowledge of the fundamental concepts of the Standard Model, of the
computational procedures, of the main properties of elementary particles
and of the most advanced theoretical developments and experimental
results. - Prerequisites
- Quantum Filed Theory.
Particle Physics.
Mathematical Methods for Physics. - Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exam.
- Extended program
- Fundamental concepts of the Standard Model (SM)
- Gauge symmetries
- Spontaneous symmetry breaking
SM interactions
- QED, QCD and weak interaction
- CP violation in the quark sector
Anomalies in the SM
- Path integral approach
- U(1) anomaly
- Chiral anomalies
Effective Theories
- The sigma model
- The QED effective Lagrangian
- Other effective Lagrangians of the SM
Neutrinos
- Leptons mixinig
- Neutrinos oscillations
Low energy QCD
- Chiral Perturbation Theory
- Non perturbative QCD
Kaon and flavor Physics
- CP violation in the kaon system
- The strong CP problem
Phenomenological models of QCD
- The quark model for mesons and baryons