Syllabus: Quantum Field Theory III

1. C, P, and CP Violation
   1. The discrete symmetries C,P & T
   2. The CPT Theorem
   3. C and P violation
   4. CP Violation in neutral meson systems
   5. The strong CP problem
2. Standard Model Phenomenology
   1. Muon Decay and the breaking of C, & P
   2. Production and Decays of W & Z bosons
   3. Production and Decays of Higgs bosons
   4. Weak decays of QCD bound states
      1. Quark Model
      2. Current Algebra
      3. Chiral Lagrangians
      4. Lattice
   5. Precision Tests of the Standard Model
3. The Parton Model and Deep Inelastic Scattering
4. Solitons and Topological Objects in Field Theory
   1. Monopoles
   2. Domain Walls
   3. Cosmic Strings
5. Anomalies
   1. Fujikawas treatment of the U(1) anomaly
   2. Anomaly cancellation in the standard model
   3. Violation if baryon number and lepton number in the standard model
   4. Instantons
   5. Sphalerons
6. Effective Potentials
   1. Path Integral Formalism
   2. Canonical Formalism
   3. Decay of Metastable Vacuum States
7. Phase Transitions
   1. Finite Temperature Field Theory
   2. Effective Potentials at non-zero temperature
   3. Bubble Nucleation Rates
   4. Electroweak Baryogenesis
8. Physics Beyond the Standard Model
   1. Dynamical Symmetry Breaking
   2. Supersymmetry
      1. Weak Scale Models: MSSM, NMSSM, ...
      2. SUSY breaking
      3. Mediation of SUSY breaking: Gravity, Gauge interactions, AMSSM, ...
   3. Grand Unification
   4. Extra-dimensions
   5. Neutrino Masses
9. Non Perturbative Methods
   1. Lattice Field Theory
   2. 1/N
   3. ...