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Script, additional material, links, ... ... Date Content Material Additional material: Notes of Standard Model Lecture 2007/8 - Version: Feb 2008   March 30 I. Introduction   April 03 II. Prerequisites     Relativistic kinematics, wave description, purturbation theory (p. 3-6 in Notes2007)   April 06     Scattering matrix, cross section and phase space, decay width and Dalitz plots   April 17 III. Introduction to QED 1. Free scalar field     Classical field and field quantization     Fock space and interpretation of field operator (p. 7-11 in Notes2007)   April 20 2. Electromagnetic field:     Quantization and Fock space (p. 37-40 in Notes2007)   April 24     Physical Hilbert space and Hamiltonian (p. 39-42 in Notes2007) 3. Interacting electromagnetic field     Langrangian, Purtubation theory, S-Matrix   April 27 4. Fermion pair production (experiment)     QED prediction, experimental methods, muon pair production   May 4     Electron pair production, tau lepton, hadron production 1st exercise sheet   May 8     Hadronic resonances: Discovery of J/Psi and Upsilon. 5. Spin 1/2 Fermion fields     Dirac equation, classical solutions, quantization, anti-commutation   May 11     Fock space 6. Lagranian of QED     Gauge invariance, covariant derivatives 7. Perturbation theory   May 15     Cross section calculation for e+e- -> µ+µ-   May 18     Anomalous magnetic moment and muon (g-2)   May 22 IV. Weak Interaction 1. Phenomenology of weak interaction 2. Parity violation and neutrino helicity   May 25 3. V-A theory of weak interaction 2nd exercise sheet   May 29 Elektroweak Theory (Quantum Flavor Dynamics)   June 5 3. V-A theory of weak interaction: Neutrino scattering 4. Neutral currents   June 8 V. Phenomenological Introduction to Standard Model VI. Experimental Tests of the Standard Model 1. Discovery of Z and W bosons 2. Precision tests of the Z sector   June 12 3. Precision tests of the W sector 4. Higher order corrections   June 15 Higgs mechanism and mass generation in the Standard Model   June 19 Higgs-Kibble mechanism and mass generation. Higgs seraches at LEP, TEVATRON and LHC   June 22 Fermion mass terms and CKM matrix. Flavor mixing.   June 26 CP violation. VII. Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) Langrangian and Feynman rules of QCD   June 29 Running of the strong coupling constant   July 3 Experimental Tests of QCD   July 6 Physics beyond the Standard Model - n.a. yet   July 10 Neutrino Oscillation and Search for New Physics

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