In connection with SNOW, prof. Stefan Pokorski (Warsaw University) will give a course (3 lectures) entitled: "Beyond the Standard Model: why, where and how?", on February 5-7, at the Department of Radiation Sciences, Uppsala University.

Time: 17.00-19.00

Place: Room 80109

Each lecture will be followed by a discussion or a special discussion session will be arranged at the end of the course (to be decided on the first lecture).

Prof. S. Pokorski describes the content of the course as follows:

1)SM as the effective low energy theory: following the example of QED as the low energy approximation to the SM, I'll discuss the point of view that the SM is the approximation to, as yet unknown, deeper theory. In this context, the lepton and baryon number violating effects are naturally expected, as non-renormalizable corrections to the SM. In particular, I'll discuss in some detail the appearence of neutrino masses.

2) Hints about the structure of the deeper theory from the structure of the SM itself: the Higgs sector of the SM, hints for GUT's, hierarchy problem, perturbative and non-perturbative path (MSSM and extra domensions), the Higgs sector of the MSSM.

3) Further exploration of the perturbative path: gauge coupling unification, models for neutrino masses.

4)Summary

The course is meant for both theorists and experimentalists, in particular for PhD students. It will NOT be too formalised. A reading suggested as a preparation: chapter 12 of the book "Gauge Field Theories" by S. Pokorski, Cambridge University Press, 1987 (a copy is available at the Angstrom library). This chapter looks scary. However a reader is not supposed to study the formalism of it; instead he/she should only acquire a general view of the electroweak theory. Those wishing so can earn 2.5 credit points for attending the course and for working out lecture notes, a task which may be performed jointly by a group of persons. A final version of those notes will be read and checked by S. Pokorski and then made public for internal use at the Department. Do not miss the occasion of learning the basics of the Standard Model and physics beyond it with some zooming on the neutrinos - and all that from a renowned specialist in the field!

Participants:

Rico Behlke (Uppsala), rico@irfu.se
Bel Bergenwall (Uppsala), Bel.Bergenwall@tsl.uu.se
Magnus Borgh (Uppsala), magnus.borgh.6683@student.uu.se
Thomas Burgess (Stockholm), thomas.burgess@physto.se
Jérôme Damet (Uppsala), damet@tsl.uu.se
Christofer Gunnarsson (Stockholm), cg@physto.se
Michael Gustafsson (Stockholm) michael@physto.se
Christian Hansen (Uppsala), Christian.Hansen@cern.ch
Gunnar Ingelman (Uppsala), Gunnar.Ingelman@tsl.uu.se
Jan Lipfert (Heidelberg), jlipfert@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Agnes Lundberg (Uppsala), aglu8622@student.uu.se
Cristiano Mariotto (Uppsala), mariotto@unix.tsl.uu.se
Emma Olsson (Uppsala), emma@astro.uu.se
Mia Schelke (Stockholm), schelke@physto.se
Aleksander Sobczyk (Oxford), asobczyk@thphys.ox.ac.uk
Andreas Solders (Stockholm), andreas@pogop.org
Fredrik Tegenfeldt (Uppsala), tegen@unix.tsl.uu.se
Nicusor Timneanu (Uppsala), nicusor@tsl.uu.se
Christin Wiedemann (Stockholm), christin.wiedemann@physto.se
Beata Ziaja (Uppsala), ziaja@unix.tsl.uu.se

If you want to participate in the course, please send an e-mail to Emma Olsson

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