Particle physics lectures (TASI videos)

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The TASI 2008 lectures, focusing on "The Dawn of the LHC Era," are being made available online, with all videos expected to be uploaded by the end of the week. The program is designed for advanced graduate studies in high energy physics, requiring knowledge of quantum field theory and familiarity with the Standard Model. Key topics include collider signals, dark matter connections, and neutrino phenomenology, presented by leading experts such as Howie Baer, Marcela Carena, and Concha Gonzalez-Garcia. Lecture notes from previous years, including TASI 2007, are also accessible, enhancing the learning experience.

PREREQUISITES
  • Quantum Field Theory
  • Standard Model of Particle Physics
  • Supersymmetry (SUSY)
  • String Theory Basics
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  • Watch TASI 2008 lecture videos as they become available.
  • Review TASI 2007 lecture notes on arXiv for foundational concepts.
  • Explore the implications of the LHC findings on particle physics.
  • Study advanced topics in collider physics and dark matter searches.
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Graduate students in physics, researchers in high energy physics, and anyone interested in the latest developments in particle physics and collider experiments.

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TASI 2008 (Theoretical Advanced Studies Institute in Elementary Particle Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder) is almost wrapped up, and they're getting videos of the lectures (and slides) online faster than I expected. You can find them here, and it looks like they'll all be up by the end of this week.

TASI, which typically alternates between strings/branes/whatnot and phenomenology in successive years, is aimed at advanced graduate studies in high energy physics. "The minimum background needed to get full benefit of TASI is a knowledge of quantum field theory (including RGEs) and familiarity with the Standard Model. Some familiarity with SUSY and string theory would be helpful."

2008 is a pheno year, and the theme of TASI 2008 is "The Dawn of the LHC Era". Lecturers and topics are (in alphabetical order by lecturer) are:
  • Howie Baer (FSU) -- Collider Signal II: Missing energy including SUSY, Tp, KKp etc., and dark matter connection
  • Marcela Carena (FNAL) -- Collider Signal III: SM/SUSY Higgs searches at LHC, etc.
  • Luc M. Demortier (Rockefeller) -- Data treatments, signal/backgrounds, statistics
  • Bogdan Dobrescu (FNAL) -- Intro to extra dimensions: ADD, UED, RS, and dual to TC, etc.
  • Scott Dodelson (FNAL) -- WMAP, SDSS, other observations; cosmological parameters
  • Concha Gonzalez-Garcia (SUNY-Stony Brook/ICREA) -- Theory of neutrino masses and oscillations, Majorana mass, phenomenology and LHC
  • Yual Grossman (Cornell) -- SM flavor structure; quark mass, mixing and CPV, connection to LHC
  • Dan Hooper (FNAL) -- Direct and indirect DM searches, and connection to collider physics
  • David E. Kaplan (Johns Hopkins) -- Non-standard: U(1), SUL(2) x SUR(2), SU(5), SO(10), etc.
  • Will Kinney (SUNY-Buffalo) -- Inflation, density perturbation, BBN, baryogenesis/leptogenesis
  • Paul Langacker (IAS) -- Intro to the SM; EW precision physics
  • Lynn Orr (Rochester) -- PDF, jets, QCD processes and QCD radiative corrections
  • Tilman Plehn (Edinburgh) -- Kinematics to dynamics; signals/backgrounds; calculational tools/packages
  • Kate Scholberg (Duke) -- Super K, SNO, Kamland, neutrino-less double beta-decay, etc., etc.
  • Yuri Shirman (UC-Irvine) -- Intro to SUSY; soft breaking parameters; SUSY breaking models and mediations
  • Gary Shiu (Madison) -- Intro to strings; attempts for models; brane world, etc.
  • Tim Tait (Argonne/Northwestern) -- Collider Signal I: Resonances -- Z', W', RS, lepton-quark/R-parity breaking, asymmetries
  • Tom Weiler (Vanderbilt) -- Astro particle physics, AUGER, neutrino-telescopes etc., and new physics search
  • Peter Wittich (Cornell) -- Accelerators/detectors, objects, sample searches and all that theorists should know

In addition, you can find videos from TASI 2007 http://physicslearning2.colorado.edu/tasi/tasi_2007.htm . The theme of TASI 2007 was "String Universe". Lecturers and topics (in alphabetical order by lecturer) are:
  • Mina Aganagic (Berkeley) -- Topological Strings and Applications
  • Nima Arkani-Hamed (Harvard) -- Fundamental Physics, Cosmology and the Landscape
  • David Berenstein (UCSB) -- Topics in AdS/CFT
  • Raphael Bousso (Berkeley) -- Cosmology and the Landscape
  • Claudio Campagnari (UCSB) -- LHC Physics: An Experimentalist's Perspective
  • Paolo Creminelli (ICTP) -- Topics in Cosmology
  • Eric D'Hoker (UCLA) -- SUSY Gauge Theories and AdS/CFT
  • Steve Gubser (Princeton) -- AdS/CFT and RHIC Physics
  • Ken Intriligator (UCSD) -- Supersymmetry Breaking
  • Shamit Kachru (Stanford) -- String Compactification
  • David Kutasov (Chicago) -- Branes and Field Theory
  • Hong Liu (MIT) -- Strings, Blackholes and Heavy Ion Collisions
  • Lisa Randall (Harvard) -- Warped Geometry Consequences & Signatures
  • Martin Schmaltz (Boston) -- Beyond the Standard Model Particle Physics
  • Eva Silverstein (Stanford) -- The Many Dimensions of String Duality
  • David Tong (Cambridge) -- Solitons and Low-dimensional Gauge Theories
  • Johannes Walcher (IAS) -- Calabi-Yau Universe
  • Barton Zwiebach (MIT) -- Analytic Solutions in Open String Field Theory

Enjoy!

PS. Many of the 2007 lecturers have put their lecture notes on the arXiv, and it can be helpful to print them out and follow along while watching. Some 2008 lecture notes should start appearing later in the summer and fall. Until then, many slides are online with the videos.
 
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Naturally, videos and some slides for 2009 and 2010 are available online as well! Forgive me if I don't copy the topics here, since you can browse them on the following pages:

TASI 2009, "Physics of the Large and the Small"

TASI 2010, "String Theory and its Applications: from meV to the Plank Scale"
 
Thanks dude...this is really helpful
 
helo how to post my question here?i got a big prob in my take home exams..
 
Post it in the Advanced Physics section of Homework & Coursework Questions.
 

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