Dr. Alexey Boyarsky

Affiliation
Leiden University
Position
Assistant professor

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Research

The nuMSM


The Neutrino Minimal Standard Model (nuMSM or νMSM) is an extension of the Standard Model with three right-handed (or sterile) neutrinos. It aims to address within one consistent framework several problems beyond the Standard Model:
  • neutrino oscillations
  • baryon asymmetry of the Universe
  • the existence of dark matter

Standard Model extension


References:
  • T. Asaka and M. Shaposhnikov,
    "The nuMSM, dark matter and baryon asymmetry of the universe",
    Phys. Lett. B620:17-26 (2005) SPIRES
  • T. Asaka, S. Blanchet and M. Shaposhnikov,
    "The nuMSM, dark matter and neutrino masses",
    Phys. Lett. B631:151-156 (2005) SPIRES
  • A. Boyarsky, O. Ruchayskiy and M. Shaposhnikov,
    Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 59 (2009) 191 [arXiv:0901.0011].
    SPIRES

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Teaching

Classical mechanics II Course page

Location

Leiden University

Description

Content of the course:

  1. Generalised Variables
  2. Lagrangian formalism
  3. Conservation Laws and Noether theorems
  4. Hamiltonian formalism
  5. Phase Space
Suggested literature for the whole course
  1. "Classical Mechanics" by H. Goldstein 3rd edition
  2. "Mechanics" by L. Landau and E. Lifshitz
  3. "Analytical Mechanics" by G.R. Fowles and G.L. Cassiday 6th or 7th edition (Thomson Learning, inc., 1999), ISBN 9780534408138.
Literature for particular parts of the course
  1. Introduction to Lagrange formalism
    • Fowles Cassiday 7th edition: 10.1 - 10.5
    • Landau Lifshitz v.1, 2nd edition: sections 1-5.
    • Goldstein: 2.1-2.3
  2. Conservation Laws
    • Fowles Cassiday 7th edition: 10.6
    • Landau Lifshitz v.1, 2nd edition: sections 6-10
    • Goldstein "Classical mechanics", 3rd editon: 2.6, 2.7
  3. Constrained systems:
    • Fowles Cassiday 7th edition: 10.7, 10.8
    • Goldstein "Classical mechanics", 3rd editon: 1.3
  4. Hamiltonian Formalism
    • Fowles Cassiday 7th edition: 10.9
    • Landau Lifshitz v.1, 2nd edition: section 40
    • Goldstein "Classical mechanics", 3rd editon: 8.1, 8.2
  5. Special Relativity
    • Goldstein "Classical mechanics", 3rd editon: 7.1-7.2, 7.4, 7.6, 7.9, 7.10
Pre-course test
  1. Test
Previous lectures
  1. Lecture 1
  2. Lecture 2
  3. Lecture 3
  4. Lecture 4
  5. Lecture 5

Particle Physics and Early Universe Course page

Location

Leiden University

Description

This course will discuss how particle physics defines physics of the early universe, the subsequent cosmological scenario and the current state of the universe. Starting with basics of the Standard Model of particle physics (SM), we will see how the whole intricate structure of this theory exhibits itself in a hot and dense, quickly expanding universe. We will demonstrate that this allows to use astrophysical and cosmological observational data to check the SM. The next part will discuss the shortcomings of the Standard Model and different approaches to resolve them: top-down (theory-based) and bottom-up (phenomenology-based), as well as implications of this beyond the SM physics for the early universe (most importantly: the nature of dark matter, dark energy, mechanisms of baryogenesis and inflation).

Lecture notes (2015)
  1. Lecture 1
  2. Lecture 2
  3. Lecture 3
  4. Lecture 4
  5. Lecture 5
  6. Lecture 6
  7. Lecture 7
  8. Lecture 8
  9. Lecture 9
Previous lectures (2014)
  1. Lecture 1
  2. Lecture 2
  3. Lecture 3
  4. Lecture 4
  5. Lecture 5
  6. Lecture 6
Literature:
  1. "The primordial density perturbation" by D.H.Lyth and A.R.Liddle, CUP ’09;
  2. "Introduction to the Theory of the Early Universe: Hot Big Bang Theory" by D.Gorbunov & V.Rubakov, World Scientific, 2010;
  3. arxiv:hep-ph/0004188 by J.Garcia-Bellido;
  4. "Principles of physical cosmology" by P.J.E. Peebles, Princeton University Press, 1993;
  5. "Physical foundations of cosmology" by V.Mukhanov, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Topics in Theoretical Physics: DITP lectures (March 2018) Series page

Location

Leiden University

Huygens Laboratory HL211 on March 12th; Huygens Laboratory HL226 on the remaining days

Description

The module focuses on spontaneous symmetry breaking and Higgs mechanism in the Standard Model. The students will learn:

  • how and why the SU(2)xU(1) symmetry was introduced, what are its direct phenomenological manifestations
  • the interplay between the chiral structure of the SM and Higgs mechanism
  • anomaly cancelation in the Standard Model
  • the differences in the structure of mass matrices of leptons and quarks, the origin and phenomenological manifestation of CP violation, relation with baryo and lepto genesis.

Course materials

Origins of the Standard Model Course page

Location

Leiden University

Assistants
  • Artem Ivashko <ivashko@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl>
  • Mikhail Goykhman <goykhman@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl>
Description

Content of the course:

  1. From relativistic Quantum Mechanics to Quantum Field Theory
  2. Weak and strong interactions
  3. Model of Fermi and model of Yukawa
  4. Internal inconsistencies of Fermi model. Ways to resolve them
  5. Predictions of massive vector bosons
  6. Non-Abelian gauge symmetries and their spontaneous breaking
  7. Higgs field and Higgs boson
  8. Electroweak theory
  9. Sketchy overview of Quantum Chromodynamics and modern views on strong interactions
  10. Main observational problems “beyond the Standard Model”
Suggested literature
  1. J. Horejsi “Introduction to Electroweak Unification: Standard Model from Tree Unitarity”
  2. “Gauge Theory of elementary particle physics” (any edition) by Ta-Pei Cheng and Ling-Fong Li
  3. As a general reference for Quantum Field theory the book by M.E. Peskin and D.V.Schroeder, “An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory” (any edition)
Course materials
  1. Lecture 1
  2. Lecture 2
  3. Lecture 3
  4. Lecture 4
  5. Lecture 6
  6. Dirac 1928 (Dirac equation)
  7. Dirac 1927 (Quantization of E-M field)

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Main ScienceWISE papers

  • Ontology-Based Word Sense Disambiguation in the Scientific Domain. In: 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2013), Moscow, Russia, . []
  • From scientific papers to the scientific ontology: dynamical clustering of heterogeneous graphs and ontology crowdsourcing Boston, USA, . []
  • Tag Recommendation for Large-Scale Ontology-Based Information Systems. In: 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012 - Evaluations and Experiments Track), Boston, MA, USA, . []
  • ScienceWISE: A Web-based Interactive Semantic Platform for Paper Annotation and Ontology Editing. In: Extended Semantic Web conference 2012 Greece, . []
  • An Integrated Socio-Technical Crowdsourcing Platform for Accelerating Returns in eScience. In: 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011 - Outrageous Ideas), Bonn, Germany, . 2nd most Outrageous Idea. []
  • ScienceWISE: A Web-based Interactive Semantic Platform for Scientific Collaboration. In: 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011 - Demo), Bonn, Germany, . Best Demo Award. []