High-Energy Theory Journal Club
Fall, 2004
Welcome to the JHU High-Energy Theory Group Journal Club webpage.  This is a new experiment where the group gets together each week to learn about some advanced topics in particle theory.  Each semester will be on a different topic, chosen by popular interest.  People will then present a famous paper each week on the topic; grad students are required to present a paper each semester, and postdocs and professors are strongly encouraged.  Each session will build on the last, like any other class.  This will be an oportunity to learn about advanced topics by reviewing the original litterature.  In addition, it will provide a good practice on how to give a good talk on an advanced topic to a learned audience.  Everyone is invited to attend.

This semester, the club will be meeting Tuesdays at 1:30PM in Bloomberg 447.

For an excellent review on how to give good talks, take a look at this paper by Robert Geroch.

The club is maintained by Professor David Kaplan.  All inquiries should be directed to him.  This webpage is maintained by Andrew Blechman - you can direct all inquiries about the webpage to him.

Fall, 2004 topic is: The Electroweak Phase Transition

September 14: Roberto Contino

Part I of:

S. Weinberg, Gauge and Global Symmetries at High Temperatures
Phys. Rev. D9 (1974) 3357

also

L. Dolan and R. Jackiw, Symmetry Behavior at Finite Termperature
Phys. Rev. D9 (1974) 3320


September 21: Linda Carpenter

Part II of above


September 28: Andrew Blechman

S. Coleman, Fate of the False Vacuum:  Semiclassical Theory
Phys. Rev. D15 (1977) 2929


October 5: Ian Tolfree

TALK CANCELLED

C. Callan and S. Coleman, Fate of the False Vacuum II:  First Quantum Corrections
Phys. Rev. D16 (1977) 1762

October 12: David Clarke

S. Weinberg, Mass of the Higgs Boson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 36 (1976) 294

also

A. Linde, On the Vacuum Instability and the Higgs Meson Mass
Phys. Lett. B70 (1977) 306

October 19: E.J. Rhee

N. S. Manton, Topology in the Weinberg-Salam Theory
Phys. Rev. D28 (1983) 2019

also

F. R. Klinkhamer, N. S. Manton, A Saddle-Point Solution in the Weinberg-Salam Theory
Phys. Rev. D30 (1984) 2212

October 26: Gero von Gersdorff

TALK POSTPONED

November 2: Gero von Gersdorff

P. Arnold and L. McLerran, Sphalerons, Small Fluctuations, and Baryon-Number Violation in Electroweak Theory
Phys. Rev. D36 (1987) 581

November 9: Tom Kramer

A.D. Sakharov, Violation of CP Invariance, C Asymmetry and Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe
JETP Lett. 5 (1967) 24


November 16: Minho Son

V.A. Kuzmin, V.A. Rubakov, M.E. Shaposhnikov,
On the Anomalous Elecroweak Baryone Number Nonconservation in the Early Universe
Phys. Lett. B155 (1985) 36


November 23: Chi Xiong

A. G. Cohen, D. B. Kaplan, A. E. Nelson, Baryogenesis at the Weak Phase Transition
Nuc. Phys. B349 (1991) 727


November 30: Dmitry Belyaev

K. Rummukainen, M. Tsypin, K. Kajantie, M. Laine, M. E. Shaposhnikov,
The Universality Class of the Electroweak Theory
Nuc. Phys. B532, 283 (1998)


Maintained by Andrew Blechman