Undergraduate Course: The Standard Model (PHYS11036)
Course Outline
| School | School of Physics and Astronomy |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Year 5 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Undergraduate (School of Physics and Astronomy) |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The methods developed in Relativistic Quantum Field Theory (PHY-4-RelQFT) are applied to construct and analyse the physics of the electroweak Standard Model and Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) after having derived the
Feynman rules. The necessary group theoretical knowledge will be introduced during the course and used to introduce the quark model.
A central role in the electroweak theory will be played by the Higgs mechanism and flavour physics. For QCD the concept of a running coupling and the beta function will be motivated. The phenomenology of the Standard Model will be discussed for e+e-colliders, DIS (deep inelastic scattering) and hadronic collisions. Special emphasis will be put on Higgs physics at present and future collider experiments. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-11 | 14:00 - 14:50 | | | | | | King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | 14:00 - 14:50 | | | King's Buildings | Tutorial | | 1-11 | | | | | 16:10 - 18:00 |
| First Class |
Week 1, Monday, 14:00 - 14:50, Zone: King's Buildings. Rm 6224 - JCMB |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours:Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | The Standard Model | 2:00 | | |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course it is intended that a student is:
1) familiar with symmetry principles in relativistic field theories and to be able to apply Noether's Theorem
2) able to construct simple abelian/nonabelian field theories
3) familiar with spontaneous symmetry breakdown in the sigma model, and the the Goldstone Theorem
4) able to formulate spontaneously broken gauge theories and to be familiar with the Higgs mechanism
5) familiar with the Standard Model (SM) Lagrangian, its derivation and its Feynman rules in the unitary gauge
6) able to evaluate simple tree-level scattering processes in the SM
7) familiar with the quark model
8) the concept of a running coupling, the beta function and asymptotic freedom in QCD
9) familiar with the QCD parton model, parton distribution functions and the Altarelli-Parisi equations
10) familiar with the Flavour sector of the SM and the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix
11) familiar with collider phenomenology and tests of the SM, especially with Higgs boson phenomenology at present and future colliders like the LHC (Large Hadron Collider at CERN). |
Assessment Information
| Degree Examination, 100% |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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| Keywords | StMod |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Peter Boyle
Tel: (0131 6)50 5239
Email: paboyle@ph.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Paula Wilkie
Tel: (0131) 668 8403
Email: paw@roe.ac.uk |
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