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Instructors: Dr. Nils Hüsken; Dr. Christoph Redmer
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:
The course builds on basic knowledge of the fundamentals of particle and nuclear physics, as e.g. contained in the lecture "Experimentalphysik 5b (Nuclear and Particle Physics)".
Language of instruction will be English.
Contents:
The lecture deals with the fundamental constituents of matter and the interactions between these constituents. The electromagnetic, strong, and weak interactions are explored, both from a phenomenological and from the experimental side. In particular, the lecture will deal with these topics:
- Overview of experimental methods (particle accelerators, detectors)
- Kinematics of scattering processes at high energies
- Calculation of cross sections (Feynman diagrams, perturbation theory)
- Representative processes of the electromagnetic, strong, and weak interactions
- Symmetries and local gauge invariance
- Standard Model of particle physics, precision tests
- Spontaneous breaking of the electroweak symmetry via the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism
- Quantum mechanical mixing, CP violation in the quark and neutrino sector
- Search for physics beyond the Standard Model
Recommended reading list:
M. Thomson, Modern Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press (2013)
D. Griffiths, Introduction to Elementary Particles, Wiley-VCH (2008)
F, Halzen and A. D. Martin, Quarks and leptons: an introductory course in modern particle physics, Wiley, 1984
Ch. Berger, Elementarteilchenphysik (4th ed), Springer (2014)
Digital teaching:
Additional information, materials for lecture and exercises, etc is provided via the JGU eLearning tool LMS.
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