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Professor:
Ken Intriligator, Mayer Hall 5234
Online references: Argyres, Martin Luty My '00 class Peskin Homework: Weekly HW will be assigned, and will determine the grade (for those taking the course for a letter grade). |
| lecture | topic (and link to notes) | Homework |
| 1/8 | Introduction | |
| 1/10 | SQM (see Argyres). | HW 1 (due Jan 17) |
| 1/15 | superspace | |
| 1/17 | Finish SQM | |
| 1/22 | 4d spinors | |
| 1/24 | Spinors, chirality, gauge theories | HW2 (Due Feb 5) |
| 1/29 | Gauge theories, symmetries and anomalies. Standard Model | |
| 1/31 | More on Standard Model | |
| 2/5 | Effective field theory and weak interactions | |
| 2/7 | More on Standard Model | |
| 2/12 | Naturalness | |
| 2/14 | Naturalness, BSM, susy, GUT | |
| 2/19 | More superspace and superfields | HW 3(due Feb. 28) |
| 2/21 | supersymmetric lagrangians for chiral superfields | |
| 2/26 | More supersymmetric lagrangians, examples, vacua. | |
| 2/28 | Feynman rules, (non)-renormalization | |
| 3/4 | More on non-renormalization; soft susy breaking. | |
| 3/7 | Susy gauge theories. | HW 4 (due 3/14) |