Discussion and solution of the twelfth series of exercises.

• Top quark discovery at the Tevatron
• Higgs searches at LEP and the Tevatron
• Higgs mechanism: spontaneous symmetry breaking of global U(1) symmetry: goldstone bosons
• Higgs mechanism: spontaneous symmetry breaking of local U(1) gauge theory: massive gauge fields and unitary gauge 
• The Standard Model Higgs doublet: symmetry breaking of the local SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y EW theory
• Mass terms for the W+,W- and Z0 gauge fields of the EW interaction
• Fermion mass terms and Yukawa interactions between the Higgs and the Standard Model fermions
• Experimental Higgs discovery at the LHC
• Higgs boson properties
• Review of the building blocks of the Standard model and the free parameters of the theory
• Open questions left unanswered in the Standard Model

Recommended reading: Chapters 17 and 18 of Mark Thomoson's book. Chapter 11 of D.Griffith's book.

Discussion and solution of the eleventh series of exercises.

• The W-boson decay
• The weak interaction gauge group SU(2)_L
• Charged and neutral weak currents of the SU(2)_L gauge group
• Electroweak unification in the Glashow, Salam, Weinberg (GSW) model of the electroweak interactions: SU2_L x U1_Y 
• Photon and Z vector fields and the Weinberg angle
• Weak-hypercharge particle assignments
• Z-boson neutral current and Z-boson couplings to fermions
• Experimental discovery of the neutral currents
• Precision tests of the GSW model of the electroweak interaction at LEP
• Z-boson mass and width measurements at LEP
• Leptonic forward and backward assymetry in leptonic decays of the Z and the measurement of the Weinberg angle 
• W+W- cross section measurements at LEP
• W boson mass and width measurements at LEP

Recommend reading: Chapters 15 and 16 of Mark Thomson's book, Chapter's 10.6 and 10.7 of D.Griffith's book.

Discussion and solution of the tenth series of exercises.