PHY563 Standard Model and Beyond

• The Fermi theory of weak interactions  
• The Standard Model (SM)
• Electroweak precision tests of the SM
• Higgs physics 
• Flavour physics
• Neutrino physics 
• The main open problems of the SM
• The SM as an effective theory 

Lectures + Exercises (start 22.02.24)

Thursday 09:45-12:30 in HCI H 2.1 (ETH Hönggerberg campus)

N.B.: By default there will be 2 hours of lectures followed by 1 hour of exercises; however, in some cases this separation may change. Specifically, on the first day (22.02.24) there will be 3 hours of lectures and no exercises.

• Peskin, M.E. / Schroeder D.V.An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Addison-Wesley (1995)
• R. Barbieri, Ten Lectures on the ElectroWeak Interactions  0706.0684
• P. Langacker, Introduction to the Standard Model and Electroweak Physics 0901.0241
• J.F. Donoghue, E. Golowich, B.R Holstein, Dynamics of the Standard Model (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
• Y. Grossmann and Y. Nir, The Standard Model  (Princeton University Press, 2023)