PHY250-5 (Winter 06)
Extra Dimensions and New Ideas in Particle Physics

Instructor: Hsin-Chia Cheng (cheng@physics.ucdavis.edu)

Time & Place: Tue & Thu 10:30-11:50, Walker Annex 113

Office Hours: Tue & Wed 3:00-4:00, 433 Phy/Geo or by appointments

Prerequisite: PHY230AB, PHY245ABC or Instructor's consent

Textbook: None. References will be given in the classes. Some useful review articles and sources of references are: J. Hewett and J. March-Russell in The Review of Particle Physics, http://pdg.lbl.gov, V.A. Rubakov, hep-ph/0104152, C. Csaki, hep-ph/0404096, R. Sundrum, hep-th/0508134.

Grading: A presentation and a final report on a topic chosen by the individual student. Some possible topics will be suggested during the course. The students should notify the instructor their topics by Feb. 23 (Thu). The final report is due on Mar.21 (Tue).

Outlines of the course

• Status of the Standard Model
• Basics of the Kaluza-Klein theory
• Large extra dimensions (Arkani-Hamed-Dimopoulos-Dvali scenario)
  • Relations between the fundamental Planck scale and the size of the extra dimensions
  • Experimental constraints
  • Physics in the bulk
  • Collider phenomenology
• Standard Model fields in extra dimensions (TeV$^{-1}$-sized extra dimensions)
  • Non-universal extra dimensions
  • Orbifolds
  • Universal extra dimensions
  • Deconstruction
• Warped extra dimensions
  • Randall-Sundrum models I & II
  • Standard model fields in RS background
  • AdS/CFT interpretation

References