Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Summary of the course PHYS-F469
Teacher: Michel TYTGAT & Steven LOWETTE (Year 2024-2025)
Official resources: ULB page Dochub space
Theoretical Part
Chapter 1: Basic Elementary Fields
Chapter 2: Standard Model
- 2.1 Gauge symmetries
- 2.2 EE-W interaction for leptons and quarks
- 2.3 QCD interaction for quarks
- 2.4 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking of \(SU(2)_L \times U(1)_Y\)
- 2.5 Fermion masses
- 2.6 Some examples
- 2.7 Limitations of the Standard Model
Chapter 3: Chiral Fermions
Chapter 4: Neutrino Masses
- 4.1 Standard model extension
- 4.2 Experimental situations
- 4.3 Effective field theory
- 4.4 Path integral formalism
Chapter 5: Grand Unification
- 5.1 Running of \(\lambda \phi^4\)
- 5.2 Yang - Mills theory
- 5.3 Grand Unified Theories
Experimental Part
Chapter 1: Beyond the Standard Model
Chapter 2: Experimental Anomalies
Chapter 3: Theoretical Landscape
- 3.1 Theoretical constraints on \(m_H\)
- 3.2 Higgs properties
Chapter 4: Higgs Property Measurements
- 4.1 Standard model extension
- 4.2 Experimental situations
- 4.3 Effective field theory
- 4.4 Path integral formalism
Chapter 5: Effective Field Theories
- 5.1 EFT in measurements
- 5.2 EFT in searches
- 5.3 Flavor physics
Chapter 6: Dark Matter
- 6.1 Searches for dark matter
Chapter 7: Neutrinos
- 7.1 Neutrino mass
- 7.2 Neutrino oscillations
- 7.3 Theory of \(m_\nu\)
Chapter 8: Supersymmetry
- 8.1 Hierarchy problem
- 8.2 Constructing supersymmetry
- 8.3 Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model