Program Prerequisites

2007 Program
Suggested Pre-Reading

SUGGESTED BACKGROUND READING FOR THE PiTP PROGRAM "The Standard Model and Beyond":

As background for the lectures presented by STEPHEN ELLIS:

"I envision these two lectures as providing an introduction/overview of the SM, especially QCD, as applied to physics at hadron colliders. In two lectures we will only have time for an outline of the subject with essentially no pedagogical development. More details can be found in the following sources:

1) "The Pink Book" - QCD and Collider Physics, R.K. Ellis, W.J. Stirling and B.R. Webber (Cambridge University Press, 1996), especially Chapters 2 through 7;

2) My five lectures from TSI 2006 available at http://www.phys.washington.edu/users/ellis/TSI%20July%2006.htm (you are encouraged to try the HW):

3) The recent "Primer for LHC Physics" by J.M. Campbell, J.W. Huston, W.J. Stirling, hep-ph/0611148v1;

4) Relevant lectures/notes by G. Sterman, et al., hep-ph/0412013v1, hep-ph/0409313v1.

As background for the lectures presented by PAUL LANGACKER:

A concise summary of the standard model can be found in hep-ph/0304186 and a set of lecture slides on testing the standard model can be found at http://boudin.fnal.gov/AcLec/AcLecLang.html These documents also contain additional references participants may find helpful.

As background for the lectures presented by YOSEF NIR:

Please see the PDF file from Professor Nir entitled: "Probing New Physics with Flavor Physics."

(NOTE: The above PDF file was posted on July 3rd. On June 25th Yosef Nir had posted two articles as pre-reading: "CP violation in meson decays" hep-ph/0510413 and "Neutrino Masses and Mixing: Evidence and Implcations" hep-ph/0202058. If you read these articles, you do not need to read the PDF file, as per Professor Nir.)

As background for the lectures presented by ANEESH MANOHAR:

See: Effective field theories. Aneesh V. Manohar (UC, San Diego). UCSD-PTH-96-04, Mar 1996. 52pp. Lectures given at 35th Internationale Universitatswochen fuer Kern- und Teilchenphysik (International University School of Nuclear and Particle Physics): Perturbative and Nonpertubative Aspects of Quantum Field Theory, Schladming, Austria, 2-9 Mar 1996.

In *Schladming 1996, Perturbative and nonperturbative aspects of quantum field theory* 311-362. e-Print: hep-ph/9606222.

As background reading for the lectures presented by MICHAEL PESKIN:

You will find a useful bibiography on the Standard Model at LHC and Professor Peskin's lecture notes on this topic at http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~mpeskin/Physics450/

As background reading for the lectures presented by NATHAN SEIBERG:

Please see "Lectures on Supersymmetry Breaking" hep-ph/0702069

As background reading for the lectures presented by MICHAEL DINE, MARKUS LUTY and SCOTT THOMAS on supersymmetry:

Students may want to look at either or both of the two reviews: Steve Martin, A Supersymmetry Primer hep-ph/9709356 and M. Dine, Supersymmetry Phenomenology with a Broad Brush hep-ph/9612389

There are also a number of recent books which cover much of the necessary background material. Students need not rush out to buy these, but if they own them, they might want to read the chapters introducing supersymmetry, supersymmetry breaking, and introducing the MSSM. They may also find useful introductory material on supersymmetry dynamics.

1) Supersymmetry and supergravity. By Julius Wess, Jonathan Bagger. 1992. Series: Princeton Series in Physics http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/books/www?key=304549

2) Theory and phenomenology of sparticles: An Account of four - dimensional N = 1 supersymmetry in high energy phys. By Manuel Drees, Rohini Godbole, Probir Roy. 2004.
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/books/www?key=296279

3) Weak scale supersymmetry: From superfields to scattering events. By Howard Baer, Xerxes Tata. 2006. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/books/www?key=348813

4) Modern sypersymetry: Dynamics and duality. By John Terning. 2006. Series: International Series of Monographs on Physics, Vol. 132 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/books/www?key=348864

5) Supersymmetry and string theory: Beyond the standard model. By Michael Dine. 2007. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/books/www?key=349186

Additional background reading suggestions will be posted as they are provided by the lecturers, so please check back periodically for new information.

(This page was last updated with new information on July 6, 2007)