Course Text
Manohar, Aneesh V., and Mark B. Wise. Heavy Quark Physics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Textbook errata available here (PDF).
Other Text References
Georgi, H. Weak Interactions and Modern Particle Theory. Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin/ Cummings Publishing Company, 1984. (Out of print, but available here)
Donoghue, J. F., E. Golowich, and B. R. Holstein. Dynamics of the Standard Model. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Field Theory References
Peskin, M. E., and D. V. Schroeder. An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory. Westview Press, 1995.
Pokorski, S. Gauge Field Theories. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Collins, J. Renormalization. Cambridge University Press, 1986. (Reprint edition)
Reading Assignments
| 2 |
Read Section 1.1 of your text, and Chap. 2 of Georgi. |
| 2 |
Read the paper by W. Buchmuller and D. Wyler, Nucl. Phys. B 268 p. 621 (1986), handed out in class, abstract. |
| 3 |
Review the C. Arzt paper discussed in class, available at Reduced Effective Lagrangians. Read sections 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 of your text. Some of the discussion in section 1.6 may also be useful for the assignment. |
| 4 |
Look at the review available at Weak Decays Beyond Leading Logarithms, or at Weak Hamiltonian, CP Violation and Rare Decays to supplement the discussion in class on scheme dependence at NLL and on penguin operators. |
| 5 |
The PDG discussion of CP violation can be used to supplement the discussion in class, available at CP Violation in B Decay - Standard Model Predictions (PDF).
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| 6 |
Read Chap. 2 of the text to complement our discussion in class. Start reading Chap. 3. |
| 7 |
To complement our discussion this week finish reading Chap. 3 and read Chap. 4. More detail on radiative corrections can be found in the physics reports found at SLAC-PUB-6263 -- Heavy Quark Symmetry. |
| 7 |
Class notes on Renormalons (PDF) |
| 7 |
For further reading on quark-hadron duality look at the classic paper by Poggio, Quinn, and Weinberg, Phys. Rev. D13 (1976) 1958, available at Physical Review Online Archive, and the recent review on duality in B-decays, available at High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, abstract. |
| 8 |
Spring Break: Read the parts of Chap. 6 that complement the OPE material discussed in class. |
| 9, 10 |
Read Georgi Chap. 4 and Chap. 5 to complement our Chiral Perturbation theory discussion this week. |
| 10 |
Read Chap. 5 of your text book to complement our discussion of Heavy Mesons in Chiral Perturbation theory. |
| 11 |
Here are some references for NRQCD & NRQED: Renormalization Group Scaling in Nonrelativistic QCD on the multipole expansion, The QCD Heavy Quark Potential to Order V**2: One Loop Matching Conditions on matching calculations.
For the Lamb Shift material see The Lamb Shift in Dimensional Regularization on the Hydrogen Lamb shift in dim.reg, and Logarithms of Alpha in QED Bound States from the Renormalization Group on anomalous dimensions in NRQED.
For further reading on material we have not covered see Bodwin, Braaten, Lepage on production and decays of Quarkonium, Rigorous QCD Analysis of Inclusive Annihilation and Production of Heavy Quarkonium, and Beneke and Smirnov on the threshold expansion, Asymptotic Expansion of Feynman Integrals near Threshold. |
| 12, 13 |
Notes for the SCET part of the course were handed out in class (PDF - 1.3 MB) |
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