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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Lucia Masetti; Dr. Kristof Schmieden
Event type:
Lecture/practice class
Displayed in timetable as:
08.128.738
Hours per week:
4
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Requirements / organisational issues:
This lecture builds on "physics 5b (nuclear and particle physics)" and will allow a deeper understanding of the fundamental building blocks of matter and their interactions.
The lecture will be held in english, if there is at least one non-german speaking participant.
Contents:
This lecture discusses the consitutents of matter and their interactions. Strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions will be detailed following pioneering experimental results. Topics that will be discussed are in particular:
- Overview of experimental methods (accellarators and detectors)
- Kinematic of scattering processes at high energies
- Calculation of cross sections (Feynman-diagrams, perturbation theory)
- Concepts of symetries and gauge invariance
- Precission tests of the standard model of particle physics
- Electroweka symmetry breaking and the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism
- Quantum mechanical mixing and CP-violation in the quark and neurtino sectors
- How to search for new physics beyond the standard model of particle physics
Recommended reading list:
Halzen, Francis ; Martin, Alan D. "Quarks and leptons : an introductory course in modern particle physics", Wiley, 1984;
Perkins, Donald H. "Introduction to high energy physics", Addison-Wesley, 1991;
Griffiths, David J. "Introduction to elementary particles", Wiley-VCH, 2010;
Barr, Giles; Devenish, Robin; Walczak, Roman and Weidberg,Tony "Particle Physics in the LHC Era", 2016;
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