Physics 481 - Special Topics in Elementary Particle Physics

J. Rosner - Fall Quarter, 2007

Organizational Information

• Syllabus, recommended reading (updated 9/23/07)
• Contact information
• Final project choices
• Office hours
• Class presentations

Problems

• Problems #1 and answers, due Tuesday, October 2, 2007
• Problems #2 and answers, due Tuesday, October 9, 2007
• Problems #3 and answers, due Thursday, October 18, 2007
• Problems #4 and answers, due Tuesday, October 30, 2007
• Problems #5 and answers, due Thursday, November 8, 2007
• Problems #6 and answers, due Thursday, November 15, 2007
• Problems #7, due Thursday, November 29, 2007

Final project

• Final project papers

Particle Physics Resources

• Reviews, tables, plots, updated listings: Particle Data Group link
• SLAC preprint server: SPIRES
• E-print archive: arXiv
• Fits to Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa parameters: CKMfitter home page
• Properties of heavy quarks and hadrons containing them: Heavy flavor averaging group

Reference for Standard Model

• The Standard Model

References for CP Violation

• D. Kirkby and Y. Nir: CP Violation in Meson Decays (in "Standard Model and Related Topics")
• L. Wolfenstein and T. G. Trippe: CP Violation in K-L Decays (in "Standard Model and Related Topics")
• T. Browder et al.: On the Physics Case of a Super Flavour Factory

References for Neutrino Oscillations

• B. Kayser, CERN lectures (with links to further lectures): Neutrino Physics, Present and Future
• B. Kayser's list of earlier references: References for Neutrinos
• C. Giunti (Warning: 193 pages!): Neutrino Physics: Mixing and Oscillations
• Other lecture notes on neutrino physics: Lectures on Neutrino Physics
• H. Nunokawa, S. Parke, and J. W. F. Valle: CP Violation and Neutrino Oscillations
• P. Ramond, Journeys Beyond the Standard Model , Perseus Books, 1999, Chapter 8
• N. Saoulidou, Seminar at UC, October 8, 2007: MINOS Results

References for Precision Electroweak Results and Interpretation

• M. Peskin and T. Takeuchi, A new constraint on a strongly interacting Higgs sector, Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 964 (1990).
• M. Peskin and T. Takeuchi, Estimation of oblique electroweak corrections, Phys. Rev. D 46, 381 (1992).
• LEP Electroweak Working Group: Preliminary Electroweak Measurements and Standard Model Constraints
• Martin W. Grunewald: Experimental Precision Tests for the Electroweak Standard Model
• S. Heinemeyer: Electroweak Precision Physics from Low to High Energies

References for Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

• S. Weinberg, Implications of Dynamical Symmetry Breaking, Phys. Rev. D 13, 974 (1976); ibid. D 19, 1277 (1979).
• L. Susskind, Dynamics of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in the Weinberg-Salam Theory, Phys. Rev. D 20, 2619 (1979).
• G. F. Giudice: Theories for the Fermi Scale
• Hsin-Chia Cheng: Little Higgs, Non-standard Higgs, No Higgs and All That
• Arnaud Duperrin: Searches for Higgs and BSM at the Tevatron
• E. Eichten and K. D. Lane: Low-Scale Technicolor at the Tevatron and LHC

References for Group Theory

• R. Gilmore, Lie groups, Lie algebras and some of their applications, Wiley, 1974
• B. G. Wybourne, Classical groups for physicists, Wiley, 1974
• R. Slansky, Group Theory for Unified Model Building, Physics Reports 79, 1 (1981)
• H. Georgi, Lie algebras in particle physics, Perseus Books, 2nd Edition, 1999

References for Grand Unified and Family Symmetry Theories

• P. Langacker, Grand Unified Theories and Proton Decay, Physics Reports 72, 185 (1981)
• D. London and J. L. Rosner, Extra Gauge Bosons in E(6), Phys. Rev. D 34, 1530 (1986)
• J. L. Hewett and T. G. Rizzo, Low-Energy Phenomenology of Superstring Inspired E(6) Models, Physics Reports 183, 193 (1989)
• E. Ma: A4 Symmetry and Neutrinos (and references therein)
• T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)" Search for New Physics in High-Mass Electron-Positron Events in pbar-p Collisions at 1.96 TeV
• G. Krobath (for the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations): Discovery Potential of the LHC for Extended Gauge Symmetries

References for Baryogenesis

• W. Buchmuller: Baryogenesis - 40 Years Later
• KICP, LASR Conference Room 152, November 7-9: Baryogenesis Confronts Experiment (symposium)

References for Higgsless Theories

• B. W. Lee, C. Quigg, and H. B. Thacker, The Strength of Weak Interactions at Very High-Energies and the Higgs Boson Mass, Phys. Rev. Lett. 38, 883 (1977)
• B. W. Lee, C. Quigg, and H. B. Thacker, Weak Interactions at Very High-Energies: The Role of the Higgs Boson Mass, Phys. Rev. D 16, 1519 (1977)
• M. Chanowitz and M. K. Gaillard, Multiple Production of W and Z as a Signal of New Strong Interactions Phys. Lett. 142B, 85 (1984)
• M. Chanowitz and M. K. Gaillard, The TeV Physics of Strongly Interacting W's and Z's Nucl. Phys. B261, 379 (1985)
• P. Q. Hung and H. B. Thacker, Dynamical Resonances in Strongly Coupled Higgs Models, Phys. Rev. D31, 2866 (1985)
• Hsin-Chia Cheng: Little Higgs, Non-standard Higgs, No Higgs and All That

References for Compositeness of Quarks and Leptons

• G. 't Hooft, Naturalness, chiral symmetry, and spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking, Lecture given at Cargese Summer Inst., 1979. NATO Adv. Study Inst. Ser. B Phys. 59, 135 (1980) (see SPIRES for reprint volumes)
• S. Dimopoulos, S. Raby, and L. Susskind, Light Composite Fermions, Nucl. Phys. B 173, 208 (1980)
• E. Eichten, K. D. Lane, and M. E. Peskin, New Tests for Quark and Lepton Substructure, Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 811 (1983) (see SPIRES for recent citations)

References for Extra Dimensions

• E. Witten, Search for a Realistic Kaluza-Klein Theory, Nucl. Phys. B186, 412 (1981)
• N. Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos, and G. Dvali: The Hierarchy Problem and New Dimensions at a Millimeter [Phys. Lett. B 429, 263 (1998)]
• I. Antoniadis, N. Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos, and G. Dvali: New dimensions at a millimeter to a Fermi and superstrings at a TeV [Phys. Lett. B 436, 257 (1998)]
• L. Randall and R. Sundrum: A Large mass hierarchy from a small extra dimension [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3370 (1999)]
• L. Randall and R. Sundrum: An alternative to compactification [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4690 (1999)]
• D. J. Kapner et al.: Tests of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law below the Dark-Energy Length Scale [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 021101 (2007)]
• E. G. Adelberger et al.: Particle Physics Implications of a Recent Test of the Graviational Inverse-Square Law [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 131104 (2007)]
• T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration): Search for a high-mass diphoton state and limits on Randall-Sundrum gravitons at CDF
• T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration): Search for new physics in high mass electron-positron events in p anti-p collisions
• V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration): Search for Randall-Sundrum gravitons from p anti-p collisions at 1.96 TeV
• Experimental references should be consulted for additional theoretical proposals.

References for Supersymmetry including Higgs Structure

• E. Witten, Dynamical Breaking of Supersymmetry, Nucl. Phys. B188, 513 (1981)
• Two-Higgs-doublet structure: M. Carena et al., Report of the Tevatron Higgs working group, Fermilab-CONF-00-279-T, Part 6
• Higgs boson searches, including within supersymmetry: P. Igo-Kemenes, Higgs Bosons - H0 and H+-, Searches for (first entry under Hypothetical Particles), Particle Data Group, pp. 388-403
• Supersymmetric Particle Searches: Particle Data Group link,Part I (theory), H. E. Haber, pp. 1105-1119; Part II (experiment), M. Schmitt, pp. 1120-1129.
• Authors who have written extensively about supersymmetry recently include Jonathan Feng; Stephen P. Martin, including an older review: A Supersymmetry primer; and Hitoshi Murayama. Do the SPIRES command "FIND A [AUTHOR] AND TI SUPERSYMMETRY"

References for Dark Matter

• G. Jungman, M. Kamionkowski, and K. Griest (Phys. Rept. 267, 195-373 (1996)): Supersymmetric Dark Matter
• G. Bertone, D. Hooper, and J. Silk: Particle dark matter: Evidence, candidates and constraints.
• J. Rosner, Dark Matter in Many Forms
• Particle Data Group (see "Reviews, Tables, Plots 2006"): Review of Particle Properties
• F. Sandin and J. Hansson: The observational legacy of preon stars - probing new physics beyond the LHC
• H. Murayama, Les Houches Lectures: Physics Beyond the Standard Model and Dark Matter
• M. Peskin, J. Phys. Soc. Japan article: Dark Matter and Particle Physics
• Hao Huan's class presentation (delivered 11/20/07)
• Alex Kusenko: Dark matter's X-files
• Stefano Scopel: Particle Dark Matter Candidates

References for Future Searches and Facilities

• Beate Heinemann: Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model at Colliders
• Max-Planck-Institut: Cosmic ray / Gamma ray / Neutrino and similar experiments
• E. Parizot: The Pierre Auger Observatory: Status, results and perspective
• The Pierre Auger Collaboration: Correlation of the Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays with Nearby Extragalactic Objects
• G. Weiglein: Electroweak Physics at the ILC
• NOvA Neutrino Experiment: Proposal and conceptual design report
• Fermilab Steering Committee: Project-X Workshop
• D. Asner: Charm Physics Opportunities at a Super Flavor Factory
• Jean-Jacques Blaising et al.: Potential LHC Contributions to Europe's Future Strategy at the High-Energy Frontier
• T. Nakada: The LHCb experiment
• Michael Schmidt (class presentation): Experiments for the Next Decade