Dates and schedule: we will be having various session on April Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th, from 10:00 to 17:30, including some breaks and the lunch period.
This brief course aims to familiarize students (oriented to Master and PhD) with some useful software for the automatization of Feynman diagram calculations. Undergrad students may be also accepted in excepcional cases.
In particular, the lectures will be focused on a series of HEP packages for Mathematica, with an intended practical hands-on approach.
In the introductory sessions, we will discuss the installation and basic use of,
- FeynRules: implementation of a QFT Lagrangian and Feynman vertex derivation
- FeynArts: calculation of topologies and diagrams
- FeynCalc: formal evaluation of the Feynman diagrams
In a more advanced session, the invited prof. Duarte Fontes (BNL) will give a practical lecture on the use of the software FeynMaster (by D. Fontes and J.C. Romao). It integrates the various independent packcages in a compatible and comprehensive manner. It is introduced as a multi-tasking software for particle physics studies. Combining FeynRules, QGRAF and FeynCalc, FeynMaster is able to perform the totality of the following list of tasks:
- Generation and drawing of Feynman rules, Feynman diagrams and amplitudes
- Loop calculations
- Algebraic calculations
- Renormalization
Requirements: it is highly recommended to have some previous knowledge on quantum field theory and particle physics. Likewise, the attendants should be used to work with Mathematica.
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