Syllabus

• The Standard Model as an effective field theory and the hierarchy problem
• Electroweak precision and flavour
• Supersymmetric field theories
• Grand Unified Theories (GUTs)
• Electro-weak symmetry breaking in the MSSM and supersymmetry breaking
• Model building
• Composite Higgs
• Dark Matter

Dates

Lectures
Monday 10--12  (theory library, PH3343)
Tuesday 14--16 (theory library, PH3343)

Exercises 
Monday 14--16 (theory library, PH1121)

Prerequisites: basics of the Standard Model, QFT1 (minimally: relativity particle fields)

Lecture Notes

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Introduction

11 Non-linear Goldstino multiplet, Goldstino-matter interactions and soft terms (old)

Exercise Sheets

Exercise coordination: NN (T75)

Exercise 1 (FCNCs and vectorial quarks, pion decay, custodial symmetry, rho-parameter)