Nordita Winter School 2019 in Theoretical Particle Physics

Lecture Notes

SLIDES FROM TALKS

• Agnese Bissi
  "Conformal Bootstrap'
  Reading material:

  Books

  • Di Francesco et.al., "Conformal Field Theory"
  • John Carlay, "Scaling and Renormalization in Statistical Physics"

  Lecture notes

  • arxiv:1602.07982 David Simmons-Duffin , "TASI Lectures on the Conformal Bootstrap"
  • arxiv:1601.05000 Slava Rychkov, "EPFL Lectures on Conformal Field Theory in D>=3 Dimensions"

• Ulf Danielsson
  "The Weak Gravity Conjecture, Swampland and all that. Lecture 3"
  Reading material:

  • arxiv:1804.01120 Ulf Danielsson, Thomas van Riet , "What if String Theory Has No de Sitter Vacua?"

• Marco Nardecchia
  "Particle Physics Phenomenology"
  Slides Lecture 1-2 (PDF)
  Slides Lecture 3 (PDF)

• Oliver Schlotterer
  "String Theory Amplitudes"
  Reading material:

  • General introduction to string theory (based on 24 hours of part III lectures @ University of Cambridge): D. Tong arxiv:0908.0333
  • Double-copy structures of tree-level amplitudes: T. Azevedo, M. Chiodaroli, H. Johansson, O. Schlotterer, arxiv:1803.05452
  • Number theory of string amplitudes: O. Schlotterer, O. Schnetza arxiv:1808.00713
    Also see the review material on www.physics.uu.se/research/theoretical-physics/people/oliver-schlotterer
  • Video lectures on scattering amplitudes in QFT and string theory (15 x 90 min course within the PSI master program @ Perimeter Institute, see in particular lectures 13 — 17): F. Cachazo, O. Schlotterer and guest lecturers www.perimeterinstitute.ca/video-library/collection/psi-2017/2018-scattering-amplitudes-qft-string-theory-cachazo
  • Introduction to the pure-spinor formalism: C. Mafra arxiv:0902.1552,
    T. Azevedo (lecture 12 of the above PSI course): www.perimeterinstitute.ca/videos/psi-2017/2018-scattering-amplitudes-qft-string-theory-lecture-12

• Paolo Di Vecchia
  "Anomalies, 2-Dimensional Bosonization and Effective Lagrangians"
  Lecture notes "Chiral Anomalies" (PDF)
  Slides "Spontaneous CP Breaking and the Axion Potential" (PDF)

• Dmytro Volin
  "Basics of Amplitudes"
  Assignments (PDF)

• Konstantin Zarembo
  "Solvable Models"
  Lecture notes (PDF)
  Reading material:

  • A. Zamolodchikov, Al. Zamolodchikov, Annals Phys. 120 (1979) 253
  • P. Dorey, arxiv:hep-th/9810026
  • K. Zarembo, arxiv:1712.07725