Standard Model and Beyond

Academic year 2023/2024
Lecturer Dario Buttazzo

Examination procedure

Oral exam

Prerequisites

The course is aimed at last-year master students.

Required: Quantum Field Theory (Fisica Teorica) 1
Suggested: Quantum Field Theory (Fisica Teorica) 2, Quantum Chromodynamics, Effective Field Theories

Syllabus

Introduction to the SM as an effective field theory

Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

Electroweak and Higgs Precision Tests

Flavour in the SM and beyond

Perturbative QCD

Beyond the Standard Model 

Bibliographical references

Barbieri, Ten Lectures on the Electroweak Interactions

Grossman and Nir, The Standard Model: from fundamental symmetries to experimental tests

Donoghue, Golowich and Holstein, Dynamics of the Standard Model

Schwartz, Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model

Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields, vol. I and II