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PHY213 Kern- und Teilchenphysik II

General Information

Dozent: Prof. Lea Caminada
Assistenten:

Dr. Kyle Cormier

Dr. Marino Missiroli

Vorlesung: Mittwoch, 10:15 - 12:00, in Y16-G-05
Freitag, 13:00 - 14:45, in Y35-F-32
Übungen:

Freitag, 13:00 - 14:45, in Y35-F-32

Beginn: Freitag, 4. März 2022

Recording

Lectures will be recorded on ZOOM and the recordings of the lectures will be made available in OLAT.

Literatur

Teilchen und Kerne (Particles and Nuclei) - Povh, B., Rith, K., Scholz, C., Zetsche, F., Springer, 9. Auflage

Modern Particle Physics - Mark Thomson, Cambridge University Press

Elementarteilchenphysik - Christoph Berger, Springer, 3. Auflage

Nuclear and Particle Physics - B. R. Martin, Wiley, 2nd edition

Particle Astrophysics - D. Perkins, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition

 

Leistungsnachweis

Besuch der Vorlesung und der Übungen; 60% aller Übungen gelöst (Punkte nur bei Anwesenheit);

Bestehen der mündlichen Prüfung

Note basierend auf mündlicher Prüfung

 

Lecture topics

The following is a rough outline of the course. Things can and will shift around a bit as we progress through the semester. Slides and exercise sheets will gradually be added. 

 

Date Lecture/exercise  

23.02.22

Introduction and Review of the Standard Model

 

25.02.22

Weak interaction

 

02.03.22

Electroweak unification

 

04.03.22

Exercise 1  

09.03.22

Gauge theories, symmetries and conservation laws

 

11.03.22

Spontaneous symmtery breaking and the Higgs mechanism

 

16.03.22

Extensions of the Standard Model

 

18.03.22

Exercise 2

 
23.03.22 Neutrino physics  

25.03.22

Neutrino physics  

30.03.22

Cosmic rays and air showers

 

01.04.22

Exercise 3  

06.04.22

Guest lecture by Dr. Michelle Galloway: Cosmic Frontier: Cosmology  

08.04.22

Guest lecture by Dr. Michelle Galloway: Cosmic Frontier: Dark Matter  

13.04.22

Guest lecture by Dr. Michelle Galloway: Cosmic Frontier: Dark Matter Experiments  

29.04.22

Exercise 4

 

04.05.22

Guest lecture by Dr. Patrick Owen: Intensity Frontier: Introduction to Flavour Physics  

06.05.22

Guest lecture by Dr. Patrick Owen: Intensity Frontier: Low energy precision physics  
11.05.22 Guest lecture by Dr. Patrick Owen: Intensity Frontier: Lepton Flavor Universality Violation  

13.05.22

Exercise 5

 
18.05.22 Guest lecture by Prof. Cristina Botta: Energy Frontier: Collider experiments  

20.05.22

Guest lecture by Prof. Cristina Botta: Energy Frontier: Higgs physics  

25.05.22

Guest lecture by Prof. Cristina Botta: Energy Frontier: Searches for new physics  

27.05.22

Exercise 6

 

01.06.22

Future collider experiments  
03.06.22 Q&A, exam preparation, particle physics lab course  

Exam

Oral exams will be scheduled for KW 25/26.