Readings for Physics 245B winter 2007 ================================================== ================================================== Note: The most recent reading appears first. ================================================== ================================================== +++++++++++++ NOTE DATES !! +++++++++++++ I'll be updating these items on a continuing basis over the next week. ------------------------- There was a recent update to SmartSite. It looks pretty much the same. However, there is a new tool: Blogger. It appears that we can all blog and comment on other blogs. I'll be trying that out for making comments on the reading etc. So you might want to keep an eye on it and write something of your own. ------------------------- NOTE: A new blog summarizes points from the readings related to present information on the Higgs mass. We did not get to discuss this in class. If you want to go over it more, bring it up at in class on Thursday before we start in on GUTs. ================================================== Reading for meeting 18 room 416 8pm Wednesday, Mar. 14 GUTs: Sec. 18.7 Kaku (available for copying as usual) ================================================== Reading for meeting 17 Tuesday, Mar. 13 GUTs: Secs. 14.3-14.5 of Cheng and Li As a follow-on to the baryogenesis section, these are worth at least a look, but I have not spent enough time with them to say how good they really are. hep-ph/0609145 Baryogenesis James M. Cline hep-ph/0703087: TASI 2006 Lectures on Leptogenesis Mu-Chun Chen ================================================== Reading for meeting 16 Thursday, Mar. 8 GUTs: We will use Ch. 14 of Cheng and Li and then a section from Kaku for SO(10). For Thursday, read Secs. 14.1. and 14.2. If you do not have access to the book, a paper copy of Ch. 14 is available by my door. Usual deal. ================================================== A couple more very recent B decay CP violation papers hep-ex/0702038 hep-ex/0702040 ================================================== Reading for meeting 15 Tuesday, Mar. 6 Higgs phenomenology: Sec. 5, http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0204104, Quigg Secs. 1 and 2, http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0212136, Haber http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0612046, Bernardi To prepare for discussion, you might want to start by reviewing the basic Higgs vertices that first appeared in Ch. 4 of Morii, et al. Then ask yourself what processes/diagrams contribute to Higgs production at e+e- colliders and hadron colliders. Finally think about the processes/diagrams contributing to Higgs decay and the role of the Higgs mass relative to other relevant particles. John Conway's Aspen 2007 talk: http://www.physics.ucdavis.edu/%7Econway/talks/Conway-Aspen-2007.pdf ================================================== Very recent papers closely related to class topics: hep-ph/0702204 hep-ph/0702199 hep-ex/0702031 ================================================== Reading for meeting 14 Thursday, Feb. 22 Secs. 9.5-9.6, Morii, et al. PDG: CKM: http://pdg.lbl.gov/2006/reviews/kmmixrpp.pdf CP violation: http://pdg.lbl.gov/2006/reviews/cpviolrpp.pdf Secs. 9.1-9.5, Seiden Dead tree version pinned to board. Usual deal. You need not red all of these. Any one of them is probably OK. Read whichever you like best. ================================================== Reading for meeting 13 Tuesday, Feb. 20 Secs. 9.1-9.4 You may want to start by reviewing the material on the discrete symmetries C, P, and T in Appendix D and then checking for CP violation the EW lagrangian. There is a lot more detail in Ch. 9 than we want, and the main points are not very well presented (IMHO). I have put out some supplements that have more on the calculation of the effective lagrangian in Eq. 9.11 and on facts about the CKM matrix related to the unitarity triangles. Try to stay focused on the relationship between the unitarity triangles and CP violation without getting bogged down in incomprehensible detail. This will be a difficult task. As before, the handout material is pinned to the board by my door. You may borrow it for copying it and then return it. ================================================== The plan (with a little on 1 & 2 and more on 3): 1) CP violation, CKM matrix, and unitarity triangles. 2) Higgs phenomenology 3) GUTs with perhaps a touch of SUSY ================================================== Reading for meeting 12 Thursday, Feb. 15 Secs. 6.4-6.6 (Morii, et al.) It's OK to avoid detail in the parts on oscillations in matter and CP violation. Concentrate more on the experimental results and their implications. Another neutrino paper: hep-ph/0702133 Experimental limits on lepton number violations: hep-ex/0702017 ================================================== Recent papers related to neutrino properties (mostly phenomenological or experimental): PDG article: http://pdg.lbl.gov/2006/reviews/numixrpp.pdf hep-ex/0701040 hep-ph/0610247 hep-ph/0610599 hep-ph/0612245 hep-ph/0612251 hep-ph/0702039 hep-ph/0702061 ================================================== Reading for meeting 11 Tuesday, Feb. 13 Secs. 6.1-6.3 (Morii, et al.) ================================================== Reading for meeting 10 Thursday, Feb. 8 Ch. 19 (Peskin and Schroeder) This chapter is packed with good physics that covers a wide range. I can recommend it all. However, it's too much to digest it all for Thursday. From the perspective of getting a better understanding of Morii et al. Eqs. 4.192 and 4.193, which are the starting point for Sec. 4.7, I suggest the following: Start with P&S Eq. 19.45 (p. 661). This is the statement of the ABJ anomaly. Then read the following sub-section on triangle diagrams, which ends on p. 664. That's the classic calculation and is one of several derivations of the anomaly. Then read Sec. 19.4. Sec. 4.7 (Morii, et al.) If you want to go for a deeper understanding, read other sections of Ch. 19. Most people suspect that the final word on anomalies is not yet in. ================================================== Reading for meeting 9 Tuesday, Feb. 6 Sec. 4.6 (Morii, et al.) ================================================== Reading for meeting 8 Thursday, Feb. 1 Secs. 4.4, 4.5, and 4.6 up to the start of 4.6.1 on page 76. (Morii, et al.) ================================================== Reading for meeting 7 Tuesday, Jan. 30 Sec. 4.1-4.3, Morii, et al. ================================================== Additional reading on generating funtionals and the effective potential: It's all there in the Peskin and Schroeder reading already given. A treatment that is more discursive can be found in Ryder 2nd. ed. Secs. 6.1-1.6, p. 258-263, p. 317-318, and p. 377-382. If you're a Weinberg fan, you can look at Ch. 16. ================================================== Reading for meeting 6 Thursday, Jan. 25 Sec. 3.4, Morii, et al. Sec. 20.1, Peskin and Schroeder Pages 651-653, Peskin and Schroeder Don't worry about axial currents and the anomaly for now. Just read this to get the 2-d results in Eqs. 19.13 and 19.14. Think about what relationship, if any, they have to the approach in Sec. 20.1. ================================================== Reading for meeting 5 Tuesday, Jan. 23 No class Thursday, Jan 18. Review the reading for meeting 4 and come with questions about SSB that you still have. Look in particular at the Peskin and Schroeder material on the effective potential. Try to understand the one loop calculation in terms of the bare, cutoff diagrams without worrying about how to move the cutoff dependence into counter terms i.e. without worrying about renormalization. ================================================== Reading for meeting 4 Tuesday, Jan. 16 Secs. 3.3, Morii, et al. (bare minimum reading) Secs. 19-1,2 Weinberg, QFT, vol. II are much deeper. If you do not have access to a copy, you may borrow the copy of these sections pinned to the board by my door, copy it, and return it. The rest of Ch. 19 is recommended too. It has a lot of detail on SSB of chiral symmetry and gets increasingly sophisticated as it moves along for 90 pages. For yet another take, you can look at Secs. 11-1, 11-3,4,5 Peskin and Schroeder. Check out at least 11-3 on the effective action. ================================================== Reading for meeting 3 Thursday, Jan. 11 Secs. 2.1.6-2.2 (pages 25-31) Morii, et al. Read the introductory part or parts of any or all of these reviews of effective field theory. We will return to this subject later. nucl-th/0510023 (Kaplan) nucl-th/9506035 (Kaplan) hep-ph/9806303 (Pich) http://schwinger.harvard.edu/%7Egeorgi/review.pdf (Georgi) Secs. 3.1-3.2 Morii, et al. (This will be a review of some 230B material.) ================================================== Reading for meeting 2 Tuesday, Jan 9 Secs. 2.0-2.1.4 (pages 7-25) Morii, et al. ================================================== Reading for meeting 1 Thursday, Jan 4 Chapter 1 and appendix E (Morii, et al.) Hopefully this is just a quick review of things that are already familiar to you from 245A. ==================================================