Physics in D>=4 : Tasi 2004 - Proceedings of the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics.
Title:
Physics in D>=4 : Tasi 2004 - Proceedings of the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics.
Author:
Terning, John.
ISBN:
9789812773579
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (873 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- Preface -- Symmetries of the Standard Model -- 1. Weyl, Majorana, Dirac -- 2. Flavor symmetry -- 3. Custodial symmetry -- 4. Scale symmetry -- Introduction to Precision Electroweak Analysis -- 1. Symmetries, dynamics and observables -- 2. Tree-level analysis of SM precision electroweak observables -- 3. One-loop self-energy corrections -- 4. Cancellation of infinities -- 5. Note on the utility of these techniques -- QCD and Jets -- 1. Introduction -- 2. QCD from asymptotic freedom to infrared safety -- 3. Introduction to IR analysis to all orders -- 4. Deep-inelastic scattering and factorization -- 5. Evolution -- 6. Applications and extensions -- 7. Closing comments -- Effective Field Theory and Heavy Quark Physics -- 1. The physics of beauty -- 2. Effective field theory -- 3. Effective weak interactions -- 4. RG-improved perturbation theory -- 5. Effective theories for heavy quarks -- Neutrino Physics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Beta-rays and missing neutrinos -- 3. Mass-induced flavor change - neutrino oscillations -- 4. Solving the neutrino puzzles -- 5. Unsolved puzzle - the LSND anomaly -- 6. What have we learned? -- Higgs Boson Physics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical framework: the Higgs mechanism and its consequences -- 3. Phenomenology of the Higgs boson -- 4. Highlights of theoretical calculations in Higgs boson physics -- Learn Hadron Collider Physics in 3 Days -- 1. Introduction and acknowledgements -- 2. The characters in the story -- 3. The technical details -- 4. Example 1: Jet production -- 5. Simulations and neutrinos -- 6. Neutrino detection at colliders -- 7. Example 2: The top quark at the Tevatron -- 8. Example 3: looking for the Higgs at Hadron colliders - or where is it anyways? -- 9. Conclusions.
Collider Phenomenology: Basic Knowledge and Techniques -- 1. Introduction -- 2. High energy colliders: Our powerful tools -- 3. Collider detectors: Our electronic eyes -- 4. Uncover new dynamics at colliders -- A. Relativistic kinematics and phase space -- B. Breit-Wigner resonance and the narrow width approximation -- Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking -- 1. Lecture themes and overview -- 2. A guide to further reading -- Little Higgs Goes to TASI -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Nambu-Goldstone bosons -- 3. Constructing a little Higgs model -- 4. Phenomenology -- Supersymmetry Breaking -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Effective field theory and naturalness -- 3. Model-building boot camp -- 4. The minimal supersymmetric standard model -- 5. Soft SUSY breaking -- 6. Spontaneous SUSY breaking -- 7. Hidden sector SUSY breaking -- 8. Gauge mediated SUSY breaking -- 9. 'Need-to-know' supergravity -- 10. Anomaly mediated SUSY breaking -- 11. Gaugino mediation -- 12. No conclusion -- To the Fifth Dimension and Back -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Compactification and spin unification -- 3. 5D fermions and the chirality problem -- 4. Light scalar quantum corrections -- 5. Orbifolds and chirality -- 6. Matching 5D to 4D couplings -- 7. 5D non-renormalizability -- 8. Gravity-gauge unification and the radion -- 9. Modulus stabilization -- 10. The cosmological constant (problem) -- 11. Warped compactification -- 12. Warped hierarchy -- 13. KK gravitons at colliders -- 14. Warped (fermionic) bulk matter -- 15. Warped bulk YM -- 16. Last words -- Phenomenology of Extra Dimensions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Large extra dimensions -- 3. Warped extra dimensions -- 4. Universal extra dimensions -- 5. Conclusions -- Electroweak Symmetry Breaking from Extra Dimensions -- 1. Introduction.
2. Gauge theories in an extra dimension and on an interval -- 3. Higgsless models of electroweak symmetry breaking -- 4. Fermions in extra dimensions -- 5. Electroweak precision observables for general BSM and extra dimensional theories -- 6. Conclusions -- Astroparticle Physics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The CMB -- 3. Dark matter -- 4. Supersymmetric dark matter -- 5. Big bang nucleosynthesis -- 6. Constraints on decaying particles and gravitino dark matter from BBN -- 7. The variation of fundamental constants -- Student Seminars -- KT-Fest -- Student Participants -- Lecturers Directors and Local Organizing Committee.
Abstract:
This book contains write-ups of lectures from a summer school for advanced graduate students in elementary particle physics. In the first lecture, Scott Willenbrock gives an overview of the standard model of particle physics. This is followed by reviews of specific areas of standard model physics: precision electroweak analysis by James Wells, quantum chromodynamics and jets by George Sterman, and heavy quark effective field by Matthias Neubert. Developments in neutrino physics are discussed by André de Gouvea and the theory behind the Higgs boson is addressed by Laura Reina. Collider phenomenology from both experimental and theoretical perspectives are highlighted by Heidi Schellman and Tao Han. A brief survey of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking is provided by R Sekhar Chivukula and Elizabeth H Simmons. Martin Schmaltz covers the recent proposals for "little" Higgs theories. Markus Luty describes what is needed to make supersymmetric theories realistic by breaking supersymmetry. There is an entire series of lectures by Raman Sundrum, Graham Kribs, and Csaba Csáki on extra dimensions. Finally, Keith Olive completes the book with a review of astrophysics. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Symmetries of the Standard Model (1,082 KB). Contents: Symmetries of the Standard Model (S Willenbrock); Introduction to Precision Electroweak Analysis (J D Wells); QCD and Jets (G Sterman); Effective Field Theory and Heavy Quark Physics (M Neubert); Neutrino Physics (A de Gouvêa); Higgs Boson Physics (L Reina); Learn Hadron Collider Physics in 3 Days (H Schellman); Collider Phenomenology: Basic Knowledge and Techniques (T Han); Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (R S Chivukula & E H Simmons); Little Higgs Goes to TASI (M Schmaltz); Supersymmetry Breaking (M A Luty); To the Fifth Dimension and Back (R Sundrum); Phenomenology of Extra Dimensions (G D
Kribs); Electroweak Symmetry Breaking from Extra Dimensions (C Csáki et al.); Astroparticle Physics (K A Olive). Readership: Graduate students, researchers and academics in high energy physics and particle physics.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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