Theory lecture 13
24 Maio 2023, 08:30 • João Nuno Ramalho Gonçalves Pires
- 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.