Michael E. Peskin

Here are links to information on this topic and others: my textbook Concepts of Elementary Particle Physics my textbook An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory lectures on high energy physics, for the public lectures on topics in high-energy physics, for scientists and students physics and experiments at e+e- Higgs Factories Web pages for my courses at Stanford articles on scientific publishing my CV and list of publications

The page of errata for this book. Please send me entries for this page, and I will credit you on the web site.

• The home page of our textbook.
• The page of errata for our textbook. Please send me entries for this page, and I will credit you on the web site.

• A public lecture "Higgs Boson: the god particle takes a human face", presented as the Moti Lai Rustgi Lecture at SUNY Buffalo, April 2023.
• A public lecture "Large Hadron Collider - Stage 2: the Search for New Particles and Forces", presented at the SETI Institute, July 2016. Streaming video of this lecture is available from the SETI Institute YouTube channel.
• A public lecture "Are We Ready for a Final Theory of Physics?", presented in the Maggie and Nick DeWolf lecture series of the Aspen Center for Physics, January 2016.
• A public lecture "Higgs Boson: SLAC and the God Particle", presented in the Science of SLAC lecture series, February 2014. Streaming video of this lecture is available from the SLAC YouTube channel.
• A public lecture "Large Hadron Collider", presented at the SETI Institute, April 2012 (just before the discovery of the Higgs boson). Streaming video of this lecture is available from theSETI Institute YouTube channel.
• A public lecture "Profiling the Invisible: Quantum Mechanics and the Unseen Universe", presented in the SLAC public lecture series, February 2005. Streaming video of this lecture is available from the SLAC YouTube channel.

• "Elementary Particle Physics Vision", my answer to the request of the EPP2024 panel for 2000 word essays on the present and future of particle physics.
• "What is the Hierarchy Problem?", my personal view of this central problem of particle physics and its implications.
• "The Future of Higgs Physics", a review article on physics at e+e- Higgs factories relevant to the Higgs boson and electroweak symmetry breaking, an update of my invited plenary talk at Lepton-Photon 2025.
• "Mysteries of the Higgs Boson", physics department colloquium on the present and future of the Higgs boson.
• "Thinking about 10 TeV pCM Colliders", a lecture on the physics motivation and possible accelerator technologies for next-next-generation particle colliders.
• A pedagogical review of the theory of the weak interaction and the Higgs boson, presented at the 2016 CERN-JINR European School of Particle Physics.
• "On the Trail of the Higgs Boson", a perspective on the Higgs boson, electroweak symmetry breaking, and expectations for the future of particle physics.
• A course of 4 lectures on "The Mystery of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking", given at the graduate school of the Humboldt University Berlin, September 2015.
• A course of 7 lectures on the Collider Physics and the LHC, given at the 2015 GGI Winter School. at the Galileo Galilei Institute in January 2015.
• The Top Quark: Yes, it is heavy, but is it essential?, a physics department colloquium on the physics and implications of the top quark.
• A review article on the major current issues in high-energy physics, presented as the summary lecture at the 2011 Lepton Photon conference.
• "Supersymmetry in Elementary Particle Physics", a set of introductory lectures on Supersymmetry, given at the 2006 TASI summer school.

• "The International Linear Collider: Report to Snowmass 2021", a comprehensive reference on the physics goals, accelerator design, detectors and experimentation for linear e+e- collider Higgs Factories and the implications of the expected results for our understanding of fundamental physics.
• "Linear Collider Vision for the Future of Particle Physics", a report that brings the story of linear colliders up to date for the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, including discussion of higher energy linear colliders for which a Higgs Factory would be the first stage.
• Submissions to the update of the European Strategy on future Higgs factors and lepton colliders: "Linear Collider Facility at CERN", "A Flexible Future Strategy for the Future of Particle Physics at CERN"

• Electrodynamics for undergraduate physics majors: Physics 120, Physics 121, Physics 124; taught Fall 00 through Spring 01; Winter 02 through Fall 02; essay: "How to Write Maxwell's Equations on a T-Shirt".
• Quantum Mechanics for undergraduate physics majors: Physics 130, taught Winter 13; Physics 134, taught Spring 12.
• Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics: Physics 152/252, taught Spring 14, Spring 15, Spring 16.
• Classical Particle Mechanics: Physics 210, taught Fall 10.
• Fluid Mechanics: Physics 211, taught Winter 08, Winter 09, Winter 10.
• Statistical Mechanics:
  • Physics 212, taught Fall 20, Fall 21, Fall 22.
  • Physics 212 with a more basic syllabus, taught in Spring 07, Spring 08, Spring 10.
• Quantum Field Theory:
  • the full-year course: Physics 330, Physics 331, Physics 332; taught Fall 03, Fall 04 through Spring 05, Fall 05 through Spring 06.
  • the 1-quartet course: Physics 331, taught Winter 17, Winter 18, Winter 19, Winter 20.
  • the 1-quartet course: Physics 330, taught Fall 24 and to be taught in Fall 25.
• LHC Physics: Physics 450, taught Fall 06, Fall 08.
• Introduction to Supersymmetry and Supergravity: Physics 451; taught Winter 03.

• A course of 7 lectures given at the Galileo Galilei Institute Winter School, January 2015: "Collider Physics".
• A course of 4 lectures given at the graduate school of the Humboldt University Berlin, September 2015: "The Mystery of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking".
• Lectures from the SLAC Theory Group Statistics Week, introducing the concepts of statistics and their application to elementary particle physics. These include two lectures of mine on "Basic Training in Statistics".

• A Java class library for the construction of applets for instruction in intermediate-level physics courses:
  • The software is described and documented in this eprint. A shorter version is published as: Computing in Science and Engineering 5, 92 (2003).
• Instructions and tools for the creation of active figures for eprints.

• "Open Access: Who are the Ghost Readers?", an eye-opening analysis of user data relevant to the "Subscribe to Open" model of Open Access publishing.
• Slides from a lecture "Physical Review Letters and the Changing Role of Journals in Experimental Particle Physics", given at the 2008 APS April meeting.
• "Publication and the Internet: Where Next?", published as the Back Page essay in the American Physical Society News, April, 2005.

--from A Journey to the West, by Cheng-En Wu, tr. by Arthur Waley