08.128.80104 Seminar I - Nuclear and Particle Physics

Course offering details

Instructors: Dr. Rainer Wanke

Event type: Seminar

Displayed in timetable as: 08.128.80104

Hours per week: 2

Credits: 4,0

Language of instruction: Englisch

Min. | Max. participants: - | -

Requirements / organisational issues:
For the allocation of seminar topics, a preliminary meeting will take place on Wednesday, February 7, 2024, at 4:15 PM in Seminar Room E.

Please send an email in advance to wanke@uni-mainz.de with a prioritized list of your desired topics (minimum of 2 topics, maximum of 5).

Registering for a presentation topic does not replace the registration on Jogustine, meaning: please make sure to also register on Jogustine!

Contents:
List of possible topics:


  • Coupling Constants - or how strong is the strong force?
  • Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations
  • Do Sterile Neutrinos exist?
  • Astrophysical Evidence for Dark Matter
  • Cauldrons in the cosmos: nuclear astrophysics
  • Chernobyl and Fukushima Nuclear Accidents
  • CP Violation and Quark Mixing
  • Data Acquisition Systems and Trigger
  • Detector Systems in Particle Physics
  • Discoveries and fluctuations: statistical methods to tell them apart
  • The weak interaction: from the discovery of W and Z bosons to precision measurements
  • Discovery of the Higgs Boson
  • Extrasolar Planetary Systems
  • Flavour Changing Neutral Currents
  • Halo nuclei, Rydberg atoms and Effimov states: a study of exotic quantum structures
  • Interaction of Radiation with Matter
  • Machine learning in High Energy Physics
  • Majorana Neutrinos
  • Multi-messenger astronomy
  • Core-collapse supernovae and neutrinos from SN1987A
  • Neutron Stars
  • NMR in Research and Medicine
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Particle Accelerators
  • Particle Identification with Cherenkov Detectors
  • Particle-Antiparticle Oscillations
  • Precision Measurement of the Muon Lifetime
  • Production and Mass Measurement of the Top Quark
  • Quarks in the Nucleon
  • Radiation Therapy
  • The Cosmic Supernova Neutrino Background
  • Searching for light Dark Matter at MESA
  • Silicon Pixel Detectors
  • Study and Relevance of the Cosmic Microwave Background
  • The Cosmic Radiation Puzzle
  • Neutrino Detectors
  • The discovery of the tau lepton and tau identification in ATLAS
  • Tracking Detectors
  • Ultra-rare Kaon Decays
  • The search for the tetraneutron: Can four neutrons stick together?
  • Unraveling the structure of Earth through geological neutrinos

Registration periods
Phase Block Start End registration End cancellation Deadline for audit
Allgemeine Hauptanmeldephase Vorlesungszeit 22.01.2024 13:00 08.02.2024 13:00 08.02.2024 13:00 08.02.2024 13:00
2. Anmeldephase Vorlesungszeit 08.04.2024 13:00 11.04.2024 13:00 11.04.2024 13:00 11.04.2024 13:00
3. Anmeldephase (Restplatzvergabe) Vorlesungszeit 15.04.2024 13:00 19.04.2024 21:00 19.04.2024 21:00 19.04.2024 21:00
Appointments
Date From To Room Instructors
1 Tue, 16. Apr. 2024 14:15 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum Dr. Rainer Wanke
2 Tue, 23. Apr. 2024 14:15 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum Dr. Rainer Wanke
3 Tue, 30. Apr. 2024 14:15 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum Dr. Rainer Wanke
4 Tue, 7. May 2024 14:15 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum Dr. Rainer Wanke
5 Tue, 14. May 2024 14:15 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum Dr. Rainer Wanke
6 Tue, 21. May 2024 14:15 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum Dr. Rainer Wanke
7 Tue, 28. May 2024 14:15 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum Dr. Rainer Wanke
8 Tue, 4. Jun. 2024 14:15 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum Dr. Rainer Wanke
9 Tue, 11. Jun. 2024 14:15 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum Dr. Rainer Wanke
10 Tue, 18. Jun. 2024 14:15 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum Dr. Rainer Wanke
11 Tue, 25. Jun. 2024 14:15 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum Dr. Rainer Wanke
12 Tue, 2. Jul. 2024 14:15 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum Dr. Rainer Wanke
13 Tue, 9. Jul. 2024 14:15 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum Dr. Rainer Wanke
14 Tue, 16. Jul. 2024 14:15 15:45 05 119 Minkowski-Raum Dr. Rainer Wanke
Course specific exams
Description Date Instructors Mandatory
1. Präsentation Time tbd Yes
Class session overview
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
Instructors
Dr. Rainer Wanke