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Beyond Standard Model II (NJSF140) course exercise sheets   
Exercise sheet 1: Running weak mixing angle in the simplest GUTs
In this exercise you are supposed to use the one-loop RG evolution of the three effective SM gauge couplings in simple GUTs to predict the electroweak-scale value of the weak mixing angle.
Exercise sheet 2: Running effective quartic Higgs coupling
Here you shall inspect the constraints on the electroweak-scale value of the quartic Higgs scalar coupling from the requirement of the absence of a Landau pole up to a given renormalization scale along with the corresponding SM vacuum stability bounds.
Lecture notes   
Notes ver. 1
This is the first (and very incomplete) version of the lecture notes.
Lecture videos and (some) board snapshots    here
Lecture 1
SM as an effective low-energy theory. Decoupling of heavy degrees of freedom from the low-energy amplitudes, Appelquist-Carazzone theorem.
Lecture 2
Classification of the d=5 effective operators in SMEFT, their transformations, bases. Reduced-background effects (d=5 contributions to the anomalous magnetic moments in QED, their d=6 SM counterparts; CP violation and electric dipole moments, baryon and lepton number violating operators).
Lecture 3
Proton decay at d=6 level in SMEFT and its kinematics. Proton-decaying BLNV effective operators and their renormalizable openings. Vector and scalar leptoquark mediators.
Lecture 4
SM gauge beta-functions in presence of the X vectors and Delta scalars, the peculiar normalization factor of the U(1) coupling. The idea of grand unification and the minimal SU(5) GUT scenario.
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