ph230

Physics 230: Elementary Particle Theory
2009-2010

Note: there will be no class on Thursday, Nov. 19. Instead, we will have a make-up class on the following Monday, Nov. 23 from 2:30-4:00pm in Lauritsen 469.
Tuesday & Thursday 9:00-10:25am
Lauritsen 469

Instructor: Sergei Gukov
Office hours: Tuesday 1:00-3:00pm, or by appointment, Lauritsen 439

Grader: Tudor Dimofte
Office hours: Thursday 2:30 - 4:30pm, or by appointment, Downs 417

Syllabus:

Fall: solitons (kinks, vortices, monopoles, instantons), the role of instantons, anomalies, phases of gauge theories
Winter: Standard Model and beyond (MSSM, LHC physics, GUTs, ... )
Spring: dynamics and phases of supersymmetric gauge theories, dualities, supersymmetry breaking

Suggested Reading for the Fall Term:

V. Rubakov, Classical theory of gauge fields, Princeton University Press (2002)
S. Coleman, Aspects of Symmetry: Selected Erice Lectures (1985)
S. Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields. Cambridge University Press (1996)

Week	Topic	Homework	Solutions
1	The idea of solitons: kinks and vortices	Homework 1	hw1
2	Phases of gauge theories	hw2 (optional)	hw2
3	Magnetic monopoles	Homework 3	hw3
4	Monopole scattering	Homework 4	hw4
5	Confinement in three dimensions	no homework
6	Abelian duality	Homework 5	hw5
7	Instantons in Yang-Mills theory	Homework 6
8	Collective coordinates and moduli space	no homework
9	ADHM construction of instantons	Homework 7
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