Beyond the Standard Model (1/3)

by Rattazzi, R (CERN)

Monday 28 Jul 2003, 10:15 → 11:00 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

Organiser(s): HR-RFA

Summary:
1)Some considerations on the Standard Model
-couplings and energy scales in field theories
-conservation of baryon and lepton number in the Standard Model
-the hierarchy problem
-naturally light particles
2) Supersymmetry
3) Grand Unification of gauge interactions

Prerequisite knowledge and references:
The course on quantum field theory (G. Ross) and the course on the Standard Model (A. Pich).
Unfortunately the Lectures on Beyond the Standard Model that can be found on the web are all at an advanced level. Anyway I list a few for leasure reading (or browsing:
- SUPERSYMMETRY PHENOMENOLOGY by H. Murayama, hep-ph/0002232
- SUPERSYMMETRY WITH A BROAD BRUSH by M. Dine, hep-ph/9612389

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