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2005 Program Prerequisites
and Suggested Pre-Reading

BACKGROUND READING FOR THE PiTP PROGRAM ON COLLIDER PHYSICS

The prerequisites for the 2005 Program will be:

  • Familiarity with Yang-Mills theory and the Standard Model, at the level of a standard quantum field theory course
  • familiarity with supersymmetry, enough to write Lagrangians for 4-dimensional global supersymmetry

Student who would like to acquire extra background before the summer school can consult the following references:

For background on the Standard Model, see

  • Peskin and Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Chapters 17 and 20.

For background on Collider Physics, see

  • Barger and Phillips, Collider Physics.
  • Ellis, Stirling, and Webber, QCD and Collider Physics, esp Chapters 3, 6, 7, 9.

For background on Supersymmetry, see

For background on the LHC, see

For background on Perturbative QCD, see

  • L. Dixon, "Calculating Scattering Amplitudes Efficiently", hep-ph/9601359

PRACTICUM

For Professor Matchev's lectures, knowledge of unix/linux and fortran at the beginner's level is sufficient.  The practicum on simulations will use existing software, so there won't be any need for advanced programming.

Please also see the letter from Professors Matchev and Peskin e-mailed to all participants on July 12, 2005 (click here).