| Date | Notes |
| Monday 1/9 | No class: KM out of town. Individual reading: The five instructions. |
| Wednesday 1/11 | No class: KM out of town. Individual reading: The five instructions. |
| Friday 1/13 | No class: KM out of town. Individual reading: The five instructions. |
| Monday 1/6 | No class: MLK day. |
| Wednesday 1/18 | Introductions, course policies, course web page. Handout from the 2004 course at Cornell. Advice on making plots. Introduction to topdrawer. Executables can be downloaded from here. The example discussed in class: .top and .ps files. |
| Friday 1/20 | Basic ingredients of a theory model: particles, gauge groups, representations, gauge and Yukawa interactions. The Standard Model: particles and their quantum numbers. How to build a BSM model. |
| Monday 1/23 | Intro to the MSSM. Particle content of the MSSM. Quantum numbers. Gauge interactiions of superpartners. SUSY nomenclature. |
| Wednesday 1/25 | Main SUSY production processes at the LHC. Supersymmetry transformation on component fields. Superspace. Superfields. Grassmann numbers and integration. |
| Friday 1/27 | Superpotential. Deriving the SUSY interactions from the superpotential. The need for 2 Higgs doublets. |
| Monday 1/30 | R-parity violating terms in the superpotential. Matter parity. R-parity. Proton decay. |
| Wednesday 2/1 | F-terms. Cancellation of quadratic divergences. Hierarchy problem. |
| Friday 2/3 | Gauge coupling unification. RGE's and beta functions for the gauge couplings in the SM and MSSM. SU(5) GUTs. Doublet-triplet splitting problem. |
| Monday 2/6 | Solving the RGE's for the gauge couplings. Predictions from grand unification: M_susy. |
| Wednesday 2/8 | The SUSY soft breaking Lagrangian: soft mass parameters. Counting input parameters. Constraints from flavor and CP violating processes. |
| Friday 2/10 | The MSSM mass spectrum: chargino, neutralino, squark and slepton mass matrices. |
| Monday 2/13 | Simulating supersymmetry in PYTHIA. My subroutine for the mass spectrum. Masses, cross-sections and branching fractions. |
| Wednesday 2/15 | Simulating chargino and neutralino production at the LHC in PYTHIA. Cross-sections for various production subprocesses. Main production diagrams. The gold plated mode. |
| Friday 2/17 | Computing the SUSY mass spectrum in a given model of SUSY breaking. Gaugino mass RGE and its solution. Consequences from the assumption of gaugino mass universality. Scalar mass RGE's. Qualitative features of the mass spectrum. |
| Monday 2/20 | SUSY spectrum calculators. Sabine Kraml's web page, SUPERSIM. LHA files. |
| Wednesday 2/22 | SUSY in Calchep. Typical decay modes of the chargino. Calculating SUSY branching fractions. |
| Friday 2/24 | Solving the scalar RGEs in the MSSM. Sum rules for the masses of the first generation squarks and sleptons. Solving the third generation RGEs. Radiative electroweak symmetry breaking. |
| Monday 2/27 | Collider signatures of supersymmetry - looking under the lamppost. PYTHIA exercise: "MSUGRA". |
| Wednesday 2/29 | The collider phenomenologist's manual. |
| Friday 3/2 | Phenomenology of MSUGRA - MSUGRA parameter space. Minimal gauge mediation. |
| Monday 3/5 | Spring break. |
| Wednesday 3/7 | Spring break. |
| Friday 3/9 | Spring break. |
| Monday 3/12 | Minimal Universal Extra Dimensions. |
| Wednesday 3/14 | Particle spectrum in UED. Discovery signatures. |
| Friday 3/16 | UED examples. |
| Monday 3/19 | Computer tutorials. Assignments: Madgraph+Feynrules=KL; CalcHEP+LanHEP=LM; PYTHIA8=AR; HERWIG++=RA; SHERPA=JL. |
| Wednesday 3/21 | KM out of town: MC4BSM workshop. |
| Friday 3/23 | KM out of town: MC4BSM workshop. |
| Monday 3/26 | Guest lecturer: Myeonghun Park (CERN): Tutorial on LanHEP. |
| Wednesday 3/28 | Guest lecturer: Myeonghun Park (CERN): Implementing a new model with LanHEP. |
| Friday 3/30 | Guest lecturer: Myeonghun Park (CERN): Matrix element method in CalcHEP |
| Monday 4/2 | Student lecturer (RA): introduction to HERWIG++. |
| Wednesday 4/4 | Student lecturer (RA): introduction to HERWIG++. |
| Friday 4/6 | Student lecturer (LM): Matrix element weighting with CalcHEP. |
| Monday 4/9 | Student lecturer (AR): PYTHIA 8 tutorial. |
| Wednesday 4/11 | Student lecturer (AR): PYTHIA 8 tutorial. |
| Friday 4/13 | Student lecturer (LM): FastJet and Root tutorials. |
| Monday 4/16 | Student lecturer (JL): SHERPA tutorial. |
| Wednesday 4/18 | Student lecturer (JL): SHERPA tutorial. |
| Friday 4/20 | Student lecturer (KL): Madgraph tutorial. |
| Monday 4/23 | Student lecturer (KL): Madgraph tutorial. |
| Wednesday 4/25 | General discussion and student evaluations. |