- Docente: Ilaria Brivio
- Crediti formativi: 6
- SSD: FIS/02
- Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
- Moduli: Davide Pagani (Modulo 1) Ilaria Brivio (Modulo 2) Michele Lucente (Modulo 3)
- Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza (Modulo 1) Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza (Modulo 2) Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza (Modulo 3)
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Laurea Magistrale in
Advanced Methods in Particle Physics (cod. 5810)
Valido anche per Laurea Magistrale in Physics (cod. 9245)
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Orario delle lezioni (Modulo 2)
dal 16/09/2025 al 18/12/2025
Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire
The course provides advanced knowledge of the theory of the Standard Model of elementary particle. The student will get acquainted with the properties and features of our current description of the fundamental particles and their interactions. Motivated by its theoretical limitations as well as by the current experimental observations, the students will then be exposed to the most common avenues towards extending the Standard Model and searching for new physics in high-energy experiments
Contenuti
The course provides advanced knowledge of the theory of the Standard Model of elementary particle with open questions from a theoretical and phenomenological perspective. The course is divided into three parts.
The first part is dedicated to effective field theories:
Introduction. Motivation and basic concepts. Simple examples. Machinery and Tools: power counting, operator bases, matching, loop improvement. Applications: Fermi Theory, Euler-Heisenberg, chiral perturbation theory. The Standard Model as an Effective Field Theory: Linear and non-linear extensions. Phenomenology and constraints from precision experiments. SMEFT at the LHC and future colliders.
The second part places a focus on neutrino physics:
Brief history of neutrinos in the Standard Model. Neutrino oscillations in vacuum and in matter. Current status and open questions for the future. Nature and masses of neutrinos: Majorana and Dirac particles. Origin of neutrino masses beyond the Standard Model. Brief overview of related open problems of the Standard Model: dark matter; the baryon asymmetry and leptogenesis; the flavour puzzle.
The third part is on precision Standard Model physics:
Lagrangian of the SM. Custodial Symmetry and the rho parameter. Linear and non-linear EW symmetry breaking. EW chiral Lagrangian. Unitarity and perturbativity of the SM. Higgs mass bounds: unitarity, triviality and stability. EW precision-observables (EWPO) and renormalisation schemes. Higgs phenomenology: decays and production. Top-quark phenomenology: decays and single and pair production.
Metodi didattici
Insegnamento frontale.
Students with DSA or temporary or permanent disabilities: please contact the pertinent University office (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en). They will suggest possible adjustments that will need to be brought to the teacher's attention for approval. Requests for adjustments need to be submitted with a 15 days notice.
Orario di ricevimento
Consulta il sito web di Ilaria Brivio
Consulta il sito web di Davide Pagani
Consulta il sito web di Michele Lucente