Rubakov School on Particle Physics and Cosmology for Young Scientists

Lecture Courses

Nataliya Poryako (SAI MSU): Gravitational waves in cosmology and astrophysics

 

Mikhail Volkov (U. Tours): Topological objects in early Universe

 

Sergey Demidov (INR RAS): FIMPs: models, cosmology and phenomenology

     Lectures

1. FIMPs vs WIMPs as dark matter candidates
2. BSM models of FIMPs
3. Searches for FIMPs at collider and beam dump experiments

     Recomended literature 

• V. Rubakov & D. Gorbunov "Introduction to the Theory of the Early Universe"
• M. E.Peskin, D. V. Schroeder "An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory"

 

Alexander Bednyakov (JINR): Effective potential in quantum field theory and metastability of electroweak vacuum

      Lectures

1. Effective action and effective potential
2. Computing effective potential at one loop and beyond
3. Effective potential in the Standard Model
4. Stability of the electroweak vacuum
5. False vacuum decay and the Universe's lifetime

     Recomended literature 

• M. E.Peskin, D. V. Schroeder, "An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory", Part II, Chapters 9-12
• V.A. Rubakov "Classical Theory of Gauge Fields,"Part II, Chapters 11-12,  Appendix A.1

     Addditional literature
 

• Marc Sher, "Electroweak Higgs Potentials and Vacuum Stability", Phys.Rept. 179 (1989) 273-418
• D. Buttazzo et al. "Investigating the near-criticality of the Higgs boson," JHEP 12 (2013) 089 [arXiv:1307.3536]
• A.Andreassen, D.Farhi,  M.D. Schwartz, "Consistent Use of Effective Potentials,,'  Phys.Rev.D 91 (2015) 1, 016009 [arXiv:1408.0287]]
• A.Andreassen, D.Farhi, W. Frost, M.D. Schwartz, "Precision decay ratecalculations in quantum field theory,'' Phys.Rev.D 95 (2017) 8, 085011 ,[arXiv:1604.0609]
   

 

Edvard Musaev (MIPT):  Supergravity and particle physics