LECTURES – 2009 European School of HEP – Germany

 

 

Martin BENEKE: Effective Field Theories with Applications
Glen COWAN: Statistical Techniques for HEP Data Analysis
Yuval GROSSMAN: Flavour Physics and CP Violation
Wolfgang HOLLIK: Field Theory and the Standard Model
Manfred LINDNER: Neutrino Physics
Joseph LYKKEN: Beyond the Standard Model
Keith OLIVE: Cosmology for Particle Physicists
Gavin SALAM: QCD
Masahiro TESHIMA: High-Energy Cosmic and Gamma Rays
Gennady ZINOVJEV: Heavy Ions


Martin BENEKE: Effective Field Theories with Applications
1) What are effective field theories? Renormalizable vs.
non-renormaliable quantum field theories. Top-down vs.
bottom-up approaches and their uses for the strong interaction and in the SM.
2) Applications:
a) Integrating out a heavy particle
b) Loop effects, weak interaction or beyond the standard model

Reading list:
There is currently no textbook devoted to the concepts of effective field theories, though it is extensively used in books on the weak interaction and heavy quark physics [e.g. Georgi, Manohar/Wise, Mannel].
Basic field theory knowledge [for instance, equivalent to Peskin/Schroeder's Chapters 6, 10, 12] is helpful.
Good lecture notes on effective field theory available on the archive are:
[1] I.Z. Rothstein, TASI lectures on effective field theories, hep-ph/0308266
[2] A.V. Manohar, Effective field theories, hep-ph/9606222

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Glen COWAN: Statistical Techniques for HEP Data Analysis
Lecture 1: Introduction to Bayesian statistical methods
Frequentist and Bayesian approaches to statistics
Parameter estimation (frequentist and Bayesian)
Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Bayesian computation

Lecture 2: Introduction to multivariate methods
Event selection viewed as a statistical test
Examples of multivariate classifiers: linear, neural network, boosted decision trees, support vector machines

Reading list:
G. Cowan, Data analysis: Frequently Bayesian. Physics Today, Vol. 60, No. 4. (2007), pp. 82-3.
http://ptonline.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_60/iss_4/82_1.shtml
http://www.pp.rhul.ac.uk/~cowan/stat/GDCPhysicsToday.pdf

Chapters 31-32 (Probability, Statistics) of the 2008 Review of Particle Physics, C. Amsler et al., Physics Letters B667, 1 (2008).
http://pdg.lbl.gov/2008/reviews/rpp2008-rev-probability.pdf
http://pdg.lbl.gov/2008/reviews/rpp2008-rev-statistics.pdf

J. Friedman, Recent Advances in Predictive (Machine) Learning, Proceedings of PHYSTAT2003, SLAC, 2003.
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/C030908/papers/WEAT003.pdf

Also very useful is the TMVA Users Guide, especially Chapter 6: A. Hoecker et al., arXiv physics/0703039 (2008).
http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0703039


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Yuval GROSSMAN: Flavour Physics and CP Violation
Lecture 1: The Standard Model picture of flavour
1. How to built models
2. The SM
3. Flavour in the SM

Lecture 2: Probing flavour
1. Theory: meson mixing and decays
2. Experimentally: Kaons, Charm and Beauty
3. The current status of flavour

Lecture 3: Flavour beyond the SM
1. The SM flavour puzzle
2. The new physics flavour puzzle
3. The future of flavour

Reading list:
1. A. Ceccucci, Z. Ligeti and Y. Sakai: ``The CKM quark-mixing matrix'', on pages 138-145 of the Review of Particle Physics, J. Phys. G 33, 1 (2006)
2. Y. Nir: ``Flavour physics'', arXiv:0708.1872.

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Wolfgang HOLLIK: Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model
1. Elements of Quantum Field Theory
2. Cross sections and decay rates
3. Gauge theories
3.1 Abelian gauge theories (QED)
3.2 Non-Abelian gauge theories
3.3 QCD
4. Higgs mechanism
4.1 Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB)
4.2 SSB in gauge theories
5. Electroweak interaction and Standard Model
6. Phenomenology of W and Z bosons
7. Higgs bosons

Reading list:
F. Halzen, A.D. Martin:
Quarks and Leptons: Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics
C. Quigg:
Gauge Theories of Stong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions
M. Maggiore:
A Modern Introductiuon to Quantum Field Theory

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Manfred LINDNER: Neutrino Physics
The lecture will contain:
- an overview of the current knowledge of neutrino properties
-  the physics potential of on-going and planned experiments
-  theoretical interpretations of neutrino masses and mixings
-  neutrinos as probes (in geo-physics, nuclear physics, solar physics, astrophysics and cosmology)

Reading list:
Online:
M.C. Gonzalez-Garcia and Y. Nir, Neutrino Masses and  Mixing: Evidence and Implications, published in Rev.Mod.Phys.75:345-402,2003,  e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0202058

Books:
G. Altarelli and K. Winter, eds., Neutrino mass, Springer 2004.
K. Zuber, Neutrino Physics, IOP 2004.
M. Fukugita, and T. Yanagida, Physics of neutrinos and applications  to astrophysics, Springer, 2003.
C. Giunti and C.W: Kim, Fundamentals of neutrino physics and astrophysics, Oxford University Press, 2007

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Joseph LYKKEN: Beyond the Standard Model

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Keith OLIVE: Cosmology for Particle Physicists
Introduction and Construction of the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Universe.
The Early Thermal Universe
The Cosmic Microwave Background
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Dark Matter
Baryogenesis
Inflation

Reading list:
Chapter 15 of Weinberg's Gravitation and Cosmology
Borner's The Early Universe

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Gavin SALAM: QCD
1) QCD, colour and soft radiation
2) Processes with incoming hadrons, DGLAP equations
3) Predictive methods for pp colliders
4) Final-state observables

Suggested reading:
1. R.K.Ellis, W.J. Stirling and B.R.Webber: "QCD and Collider Physics", ISBN 0521 581893, Cambridge University Press http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521545897/002-3714793-2208859 (see also http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/theory/webber/QCDbook.html)
2. The Handbook of Perturbative QCD, the CTEQ Collaboration (http://www.phys.psu.edu/~cteq/ )

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Masahiro TESHIMA: High-Energy Cosmic and Gamma Rays

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Gennady ZINOVJEV: Quark Gluon Plasma and Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Lecture 1.
What is a quark-gluon plasma? Why relativistic heavy ions?
 - brief history;
- QCD thermodynamics;
- statistical hadronization as a phenomenological tool;
  - experimental signals. 
Lecture 2.
Theoretical and experimental prospects of exploring quark-gluon plasma.

Reading list:
for introductory reading
Cheuk-Yin WONG "Introduction to High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions", World Scientific, Singapore, 1994
J. LETESSIER and J. RAFELSKI "Hadrons and Quark-Gluon Plasma", Cambridge University Press, 2002
for optimal reading
K.YAGI, T. HATSUDA and Y. MIAKE "Quark-Gluon Plasma. From Big Bang to Little Bang", Cambridge University Press, 2005
 for advanced reading
E. Shuryak "The QCD Vacuum, Hadrons and Superdense Matter", Second Edition, World Lecture Notes in Physics, v.71, World Scientific, Singapore, 2004
J.W. Harris and B. Mueller, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 46 (1996) 71.
B. Mueller and J. Nagle, Results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Colliders, arXiv:nucl-th/0602029.
M. Gyulassi and L. McLerran, New Forms of QCD Matter Discovered at RHIC, Nucl. Phys. A750 (2005) 30; arXiv:nucl-th/0405013.
M. Tannenbaum, Recent Results in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions: from "a New State of Matter" to "the Perfect Liquid", arXiv:nucl-ex/06033003.
E. Shuryak, Physics of Strongly Coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma, arXiv:hep-ph/0807.3033

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