Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Uwe Gerd Oberlack
Event type:
Lecture/practice class
Displayed in timetable as:
08.128.737
Hours per week:
4
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | -
Requirements / organisational issues:
Knowledge equivalent to module Experimental Physics 5b “Nuclear and Particle Physics” is recommended. Ask instructor if in doubt.
Compulsory attendance:
Part of the exercises may include the presentation of a current research paper. For reasonable discussion and feedback, a presence in most of such cases will be needed. For the lecture, participation is recommended but not mandatory. (Depending on the lecture hall, a zoom recording may be possible. Will be announced at the first lecture.)
Contents:
The course provides an overview of cosmology and astroparticle physics and of topical research
themes. It provides essential knowledge to successfully complete a master’s thesis in a related subject
area.
The main themes of the course relate to:
•Cosmology and the evolution of the Universe
•Dark matter and
•Cosmic radiation of charged particles, neutrinos, and gammas as well as gravitational waves.
The subject “cosmology and evolution of the universe“ covers cosmological models and parameters,
cosmological distances and related measurements, the matter/antimatter problem, the synthesis of
light elements, the microwave background radiation, structure formation, the formation, classi?ca-
tion, development of galaxies, active galactic nuclei and galaxy clusters, as well as the formation,
energy budget, development, and ?nal stages of stars, including the related nucleosynthesis. The
theme “dark matter"covers the evidence, as well as direct and indirect searches performed to detect
viable particle candidates. Keywords important for the chapter on “cosmic rays” are: sources, com-
position, propagation, and detection of charged cosmic radiation, sources and detection of resolved
and di?use gamma-ray sources, determination of neutrino properties (oscillations, direct mass mea-
surement, neutrino-less double beta decay), sources and detection of terrestrial and astrophysical
neutrinos, the theory and prospective sources of gravitational waves, as well as their indirect and
direct detection.
Recommended reading list:
B. Ryden: Introduction to Cosmology, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press 2017 (ebook available at UB library)
A.R. Liddle: An Introduction to Modern Cosmology, 3rd ed., Wiley 2015 (ebook available at UB library)
Scott Dodelson & Fabian Schmidt: Modern Cosmology, 2nd ed., Academic Press 2021 (advanced book)
Donald Perkins, Particle Astrophysics, Oxford 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-954545-9
A. Goobar and L. Bergstrom, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2nd ed,
Springer 2004
A. DeAngelis & M. Pimenta, Introduction to Particle and Astroparticle Physics,
2nd ed., Springer 2018
C. Grupen, Astroparticle Physics, Springer 2005
or: Einstieg in die Astroteilchenphysik, 2nd ed., Springer 2018
M. S. Longair: High Energy Astrophysics, 3rd ed., Cambridge, 2011
P. Schneider, Extragalactic astronomy and cosmology : an introduction, Springer, 2015
Sean Carroll: A No-Nonsense Introduction to General Relativity, 2001 https://preposterousuniverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/grtinypdf.pdf
Digital teaching:
Use of moodle / lms. (Possibly recording on zoom.)
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