Academic Training Lecture For Postgraduate Students

Standard Model Physics

Name: Standard Model Physics
Start: 1999-11-25T11:00:00+01:00
End: 1999-11-25T14:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

by G. ALTARELLI (CERN-TH)

Thursday 25 Nov 1999, 11:00 → 14:00 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

400

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Description

Lecture 4 Introduction. Structure of gauge theories. The QED and QCD examples. Chiral theories. The electroweak theory. Spontaneous symmetry breaking. The Higgs mechanism. Gauge boson and fermion masses. Yukawa couplings. Charges current couplings. The Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix and CP violation. Neutral current couplings. The Glashow-Iliopoulos-Maiani mechanism. Gauge boson and Higgs couplings. Radiative corrections and loops. Cancellation of the chiral anomaly. Limits on the Higgs mass. Comparison with experiment. Problems of the Standard Model. Outlook.