| PHYS 7361 SYLLABUS | |||||
| ELEMENTARY PARTICLES II | |||||
| Dr. S. Dalley | |||||
| Spring 2008 | |||||
| TOPIC | Chap | Wk | |||
| Introduction and Motivation | 1 | 16-Jan | |||
| Spinors: Weyl, Dirac and Majorana | 2.1-2.3 | 23-Jan | |||
| 2.4-2.5 | 30-Jan | ||||
| Introduction to supersymmetry and the MSSM | 3 | 6-Feb | |||
| The supersymmetry algebra and supermultiplets | 4 | 13-Feb | |||
| The Wess-Zumino model | 5 | 20-Feb | |||
| Superfields | 6 | 27-Feb | |||
| Vector (or gauge) supermultiplets | 7 | 5-Mar | |||
| SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS | 12-Mar | ||||
| The MSSM | 8 | 19-Mar | |||
| SCIENCE FAIR - NO CLASS | 26-Mar | ||||
| The MSSM continued… | 2-Apr | ||||
| SUSY breaking | 9 | 9-Apr | |||
| Electroweak symmetry breaking in the MSSM | 10 | 16-Apr | |||
| Sparticle masses in the MSSM | 11 | 23-Apr | |||
| Simple tree-level calculations in the MSSM | 12 | w/b 28 Apr | |||
| Final Exam (3hrs) Exercises from textbook | w/b 5 May | ||||
| text: Supersymmetry in Particle Physics | |||||
| by Ian Aitchison, CUP 2007, ISBN 9780521880237 | |||||
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