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) |