Examination procedure
<p>Oral exam</p>
Prerequisites
The course is designed for fourth-year master’s students.
Prerequisite: An introductory course in Quantum Field Theory.
Syllabus
The building blocks of the Standard Model
Representations of the Lorentz group: Particles vs Fields
Long-range forces: gauge invariance from Lorentz invariance
Effective Field Theories and Renormalisation
The electroweak chiral Lagrangian and the Higgs boson
Bibliographical references
Steven Weinberg - The Quantum Theory of Fields, Volume 1, 2
Matthew Schwartz - Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model
Riccardo Barbieri - Lectures on the Electroweak Interactions