Sumários

Discussion of outstanding exercises

22 Maio 2020, 08:30 • Nuno Barros

Brief discussion about upcoming solve-at-home evaluation homework. Discussion of results from first evaluation.
Discussion of topic selection for final evaluation work.

Complete discussion of exercises on neutrino oscillations

Discussion of exercises on hadronic weak interactions and CP violation.

The Higgs boson

20 Maio 2020, 08:30 • Nuno Barros

  • Review of Lagrangians in QFT
  • Review of the principle of gauge invariance
    • Local and global gauge transformation
    • QED from the gauge principle
  • The Higgs mechanism
    • Spontaneous symmetry breaking
    • Goldstone's theorem
    • The Higgs mechanism
  • Higgs in the Standard Model
    • Masses of W and Z
    • Masses of the fermions
  • Properties of the Higgs boson
  • Discovery of the Higgs

Electroweak Unification

15 Maio 2020, 08:30 • Nuno Barros

Replacement class for the skipped missed lecture (theoretical class)


  • Properties of the W boson
    • Polarization states
    • W decay
  • Gauge theory of the weak interactions
    • SU(2)L 
  • Electroweak unification
    • U(1)Y
    • The Z boson
    • Z boson decay
    • Z branching ratios

Not Taught.

13 Maio 2020, 08:30 • Nuno Barros

Class rescheduled due to last minute emergency. Subject taught on following tutorial (TP) class. 


Discussion of homework 6

8 Maio 2020, 08:30 • Nuno Barros

Discussion of exercises from series 6 : weak interaction, neutrino scattering and neutrino oscillations

Didn't complete the discussion of all exercises.