Program

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Lectures and topics

FERRUCCIO FERUGLIO (Padova U. & INFN)
Neutrino Physics video
Lecture 1: Neutrino oscillations (theory)
Lecture 2: Neutrino oscillations (experiments)
Lecture 3: Implications of neutrino oscillations for physics beyond the Standard Model
Lecture 4: Neutrinos and the hierarchy problem
Lecture 5: Neutrinos and the flavor problem

Lecture Notes

MICHAEL PESKIN (SLAC)
Collider Physics video
Lecture 1: Introduction to the LHC; accelerator; basic classes of events
Lecture 2: W and Z bosons; precision electroweak
Lecture 3: Parton model
Lecture 4: Altarelli-Parisi evolution; jet structure
Lecture 5: The Goldstone boson equivalence theorem
Lecture 6: The Higgs boson
Lecture 7: Aspects of the search for new particles

Lecture Notes

RICCARDO RATTAZZI (EPFL)
Particle Physics & the structure of 4D RG flows video

Slides

VALERY RUBAKOV (INR & Lomonosov Moscow U.)
Early Universe video
1. Introduction: homogeneous Universe
      1.1 Friedmann equation and sample solutions
      1.2 Energy content in the present Universe
      1.3 Particle horizon, event horizon
2. Cosmological perturbations I
      2.1 Helicity decomposition
      2.2 Tensor modes
      2.3 Vector modes
3. Cosmological perturbations II
      3.1 Scalar modes
      3.2 Adiabatic mode
4. Elements of theory of CMB temperature anisotropy
      4.1 Sachs–Wolfe, Doppler and integrated Sachs–Wolfe effects
      4.2 Large angular scales
      4.3 Intermediate angular scales
      4.4 What do we learn from CMB temperature anisotropy
5. Elements of theory of CMB polarization
      5.1 More about photon last scattering
      5.2 Reionization
      5.3 Polarization from Thomson scattering
      5.4 E- and B-modes
      5.5 Effect of scalar perturbations
      5.6 Effect of tensor perturbations
6. Inflation
      6.1 Main idea
      6.2 Inflaton mechanism
      6.3 Generation of tensor perturbations
      6.4 Generation of scalar perturbations: inflaton mechanism
      6.5 Estimating non-Gaussianity
      6.6 Curvaton mechanism. Non-Gaussianity, entropy modes
      6.7 Example of generation of entropy mode: axion misalignment
7. Alternatives to inflation
      7.1 Bouncing Universe
      7.2 Genesis
      7.3 Generating scalar perturbations
8. Conclusions

Slides

GIOVANNI VILLADORO (ICTP)
Axions video
1. The strong CP problem
2. Non-axion solutions
3. Theories of QCD Axion
4. Axion properties and its effective field theory
5. Axion as DM candidate and its cosmology
6. Existing bounds and detection techniques
7. Beyond the QCD axion: ALPs, axiverse, axions as inflatons

Special seminar

RICCARDO BARBIERI (SNS & INFN, Pisa)
Detecting axions by way of their coupling to the spin of the nucleus or the electron video

Abstract: I summarize and comment on some proposals, old or mostly recent, to try to detect the existence of axions by exploiting their coupling to the spin of the nucleus or of the electron.

Slides