Course Meets: Tuesdays Thursdays 12:30 pm - 2:18 pm, Aviation Building , room 0115.
Brief introduction to Field Theory: scalar, Dirac and gauge fields, Feynman diagrams.
Elements of Group Theory and Constituent Quark Model: groups, representations, Young tableaux, product representations; the Eightfold way, QCD lagrangian, SU(3) flavor, SU(3) color.
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: Landau-Ginzburg theory, the Goldstone theorem, sigma-model, pion as a Goldstone boson.
Electroweak (EW) Interactions: Fermi theory of weak interactions, EW SU(2) x U(1) lagrangian, Higgs boson and spontaneous EW symmetry breaking, CKM matrix, e^+e^- annihilation, Z-boson decay and neutrinos.
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD): running coupling and asymptotic freedom, renormalons.
Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) and parton model, DGLAP evolution equation, operator product expansion, hadron scattering and jets.
Axial anomaly, instantons and the U(1) problem.
Small-x physics and parton saturation.
Here's a list of books to complement Cheng and Li. The books are listed in the order of increasing difficulty (more or less).
Grading will be based on the HW's.