PHYS730 HIGGS BOSON THEORY AND PHENOMENOLOGY
| Course Code: | 2300730 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Physics |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. İSMAİL TURAN |
| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, students will learn:
- Elements of Standard Model of Particle Physics, Leptons, Quarks, and the
Fundamental Interactions. - Lagrangian Formalism and Conservation Laws, gauge Invariance in Classical Electrodynamics.
- Non-Abelian Gauge Theories, Idea of Spontaneously Broken Symmetries.
- Electroweak Interactions of Leptons, the Discovery of the SM Higgs Boson at the LHC.
- Theories Beyond the Standard Model Higgs and Gauge Sectors.
Course Content
For course details, see https://catalog2.metu.edu.tr.Course Learning Outcomes
Students, who passed the course satisfactorily will (be able to) :
- adaquately describe leptons, Quarks, and the fundamental interactions
- have the technical and mathematical skills required for the formulation of Standard Model of particle physics
- apply basic notions of symmetries and the corresponding conserved laws
- analyze Abelian and non-Abelian gauge symmetries
- understand the discovery of the SM Higgs boson at the LHC and various implications
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | They are competent in the fundamentals of Physics and in the subfield of their thesis work. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | They have necessary skills (literature search, experiment design, project design, etc.) for doing research with guidance of a more experienced researcher. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | They can communicate research results in a proper format (journal article, conference presentation, project report etc.) | ✔ | |||
| 4 | They can learn necessary skills and techniques (theoretical, experimental, computational etc.) on their own. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | They have necessary skills to work as team member in a research group. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution