Lecture 2 Notes (Tues. Aug 31, 2004)
Lie Groups: Lie algebra, roots, weights
Lecture 3 Notes (Thurs. Sep 2, 2004)
Lie Groups: roots of SU(3) and SU(4), simple roots, Dynkin diagrams
Lecture 4 Notes (Tues. Sep 7, 2004)
Lie Groups: representations of SU(N)
Lecture 5 Notes (Thurs. Sep 9, 2004)
Lie Groups: Young tableaux
Gauge Theories: QED
Lecture 6 Notes (Tues. Sep 14, 2004)
Gauge Theories: non-Abelian theories, symmetry breaking, Higgs mechanism
Lecture 7 Notes (Thurs. Sep 16, 2004)
Gauge Theories: Higgs mechanism, Goldstone bosons, Higgs mechanism in non-Abelian theories
Lecture 8 Notes (Tues. Sep 21, 2004)
Gauge Theories: Higgs mechanism in electroweak theory
Lecture 9 Notes (Thurs. Sep 23, 2004)
Gauge Theories: chiral fermions, fermion masses
Charge conjugation for fermions
SU(5) GUT: 5 multiplet
Lecture 10 Notes (Tues. Sep 28, 2004)
SU(5) GUT: 10 multiplet, coupling of gauge bosons to fermions
Lecture 11 Notes (Thurs. Sep 30, 2004)
SU(5) GUT: Weinberg angle
SU(5) Symmetry Breaking
Lecture 12 Notes (Tues. Oct 5, 2004)
SU(5) Symmetry Breaking
Lecture 13 Notes (Thurs. Oct 7, 2004)
SU(5) Symmetry Breaking: gauge boson masses, fine tuning
Running Couplings and the GUT Scale
Lecture 14 Notes (Tues. Oct 12, 2004)
Running Couplings and the GUT Scale
Lecture 15 Notes (Thurs. Oct 14, 2004)
Running Couplings and the GUT Scale
Lecture 16 Notes (Tues. Oct 19, 2004)
SO(10) GUT: SO(2N) group theory, SU(5) content of the 16 representation of SO(10)
Lecture 17 Notes (Thurs. Oct 21, 2004)
SO(10) GUT: particle spectrum
Lecture 18 Notes (Tues. Oct 26, 2004)
Supersymmetry: introduction, spinor notation, SUSY generators
Lecture 19 Notes (Thurs. Oct 28, 2004)
Supersymmetry: Bose-Fermi symmetry, superspace
Lecture 20 Notes (Tues. Nov 2, 2004)
Supersymmetry: supertranslations, covariant derivative, chiral superfield, F-term, superpotential
Lecture 21 Notes (Thurs. Nov 4, 2004)
Supersymmetry: vector superfield, D-term, Wess-Zumino Lagrangian, MSSM Higgs doublets
Lecture 22 Notes (Tues. Nov 9, 2004)
Supersymmetry: vector superfields
Lecture 23 Notes (Thurs. Nov 11, 2004)
Supersymmetry: SUSY QED, non-Abelian gauge fields
Lecture 24 Notes (Tues. Nov 16, 2004)
Supersymmetry: non-Abelian gauge theories,
Lecture 25 Notes (Thurs. Nov 18, 2004)
Supersymmetry: O'Raifeartaigh model, continuous symmetry breaking in SUSY
Lecture 26 Notes (Tues. Nov 30, 2004)
Supersymmetry: SUSY Higgs mechanism, fermion mass spectrum, boson mass spectrum
Lecture 27 Notes (Thurs. Dec 2, 2004)
SUSY Standard Model
Lecture 28 Notes (Tues. Dec 7, 2004)
Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, soft SUSY breaking, gravity mediation
Lecture 29 Notes (Thurs. Dec 9, 2004)
Soft SUSY breaking