Lectures on the electroweak interactions /
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| Author / Creator: | Barbieri, Riccardo. |
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| Imprint: | Pisa : Edizioni della Normale, 2007. |
| Description: | xii, 80 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Appunti ; 5 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6810297 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. From the Fermi Theory of [beta]-decay to the minimal Gauge Lagrangian
- 1.1. The Fermi theory of neutron decay
- 1.2. From the Fermi theory to the minimal gauge Lagrangian
- 2. The Lagrangian of the standard model, including neutrino masses
- 2.1. The global symmetries of the minimal gauge Lagrangian
- 2.2. Towards a realistic Lagrangian
- 2.3. The accidental symmetries of the Standard Model
- 3. The main predictions of the standard model
- 3.1. Gauge symmetry breaking and particle masses
- 3.2. Couplings to fermions of the gauge bosons
- 3.3. The Higgs boson
- 4. Precision tests
- 4.1. Parity violation in atomic physics
- 4.2. Leading corrections to the [rho] parameter
- 4.3. Sensitivity to the Higgs mass
- 4.4. Vacuum polarization amplitudes in a general universal theory
- 4.5. Current experimental constraints
- 4.6. An interlude: making it without a Higgs boson
- 5. Flavour physics
- 5.1. The theorems of flavour physics
- 5.2. Individual lepton number conservation
- 5.3. About the unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobaiashi-Maskawa matrix
- 5.4. Calculable flavour changing neutral current processes
- 5.5. Summary of calculable FCNC processes
- 6. CP violation
- 6.1. The source(s) of CP violation in the Lagrangian of the Standard Model
- 6.2. Electric dipole moments
- 6.3. CP violation in effective 4-fermion interactions
- 7. Basics of neutrino physics
- 7.1. The three options for neutrino masses in the Standard Model
- 7.2. The physical parameters
- 7.3. Neutrino mass measurements from the [beta]-decay spectrum
- 7.4. Neutrino-less double-[beta] decay
- 8. Neutrino oscillations
- 8.1. Neutrino oscillations in vacuum
- 8.2. Neutrino propagation in matter
- 8.3. Current determination of neutrino masses and mixings
- 9. The naturalness problem of the Fermi scale
- 9.1. The Standard Model as a prototype effective theory
- 9.2. Expanding in operators of higher dimension
- 9.3. Minimal Flavour Violation
- 9.4. The naturalness scale of the Standard Model
- 9.5. The little hierarchy problem
- 10. The main drawback of the Standard Model
- 10.1. Gauge anomalies and charge quantization
- 10.2. The unification way
- A. General structure of a gauge theory
- B. Real and chiral representations of the gauge group G
- C. Spontaneous breaking of a gauge or a global symmetry
- D. Renormalizable theories and effective theories
- E. CP invariance
- F. Weyl, Dirac and Majorana neutrinos
- G. Anomalies
