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Particle physics and experimental inference
Connect Standard Model interactions to decay kinematics, collider observables, neutrino oscillations, and evidence for new physics.
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Module 01 research
Particle physics and experimental inference
Connect Standard Model interactions to decay kinematics, collider observables, neutrino oscillations, and evidence for new physics.
- 01
Relativistic decays and phase space
Derive two-body decay kinematics and separate an interaction amplitude from the states that conservation laws permit.
26 min - 02
Standard Model representations
Read chiral gauge quantum numbers and test whether kinetic, mass, and Yukawa terms respect the Standard Model symmetries.
28 min - 03
Electroweak mixing and symmetry breaking
Diagonalize the neutral electroweak mass matrix and distinguish a massless photon from the massive weak bosons.
28 min - 04
Weak decays and flavor mixing
Derive charged-current mixing from fermion mass diagonalization and separate CKM factors from hadronic decay physics.
28 min - 05
Neutrino masses and oscillations
Derive vacuum flavor interference, compute a two-flavor appearance probability, and distinguish oscillation data from absolute-mass measurements.
29 min - 06
QCD running and asymptotic freedom
Integrate the one-loop strong-coupling beta function, handle its scale convention, and identify where perturbation theory stops being controlled.
28 min - 07
Parton distributions and factorization
Combine proton structure with a short-distance scattering calculation and distinguish factorization assumptions from a literal proton snapshot.
29 min - 08
Jets and infrared-safe observables
Test observable definitions against soft and collinear limits, then perform one anti-kT clustering decision.
29 min - 09
Detector response and likelihood inference
Forward-fold a physical spectrum through acceptance and migration, then construct a counting likelihood with explicit nuisance parameters.
30 min - 10
Effective operators and new-physics searches
Translate heavy-scale interactions into gauge-invariant operators and interpret collider constraints with explicit truncation and validity assumptions.
30 min