PHY211 Kern- und Teilchenphysik I - Lectures HS2024
Lecture topics and slides
Disclaimer: The following is a rough outline of the course, things are likely to shift around a bit as we progress through the semester.
| Date | Lecture |
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Sep 18 |
Introduction and basic concepts |
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Sep 20 |
Particles and interactions in the Standard Model |
| Sep 25 | Natural units and Feynman diagrams | Introduction to lab course |
| Sept 27 | Exercise 1 |
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Oct 2 |
Scattering processes, decay rates and cross sections |
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Oct 4 |
Guest lecture Clemens Lange: Nuclear properties |
| Oct 9 | Guest lecture Clemens Lange: Radioactive decay, types of radiation |
| Oct 11 | Exercise 2 |
| Oct 16 | Guest lecture Clemens Lange: Fusion and fission |
| Oct 18 | Elastic scattering on nucleons, form factors, inelastic scattering |
| Oct 23 | Parton Model and Parton Distribution Functions |
| Oct 25 |
Exercise 3 |
| Oct 30 | Quarks, gluons and strong interaction |
| Nov 1 | Jets and scaling violation |
| Nov 6 | Particles in e+e- collisions |
| Nov 8 |
Exercise 4 |
| Nov 13 | Symmetries and conservation laws |
| Nov 15 | Dirac equation |
| Nov 20 | Solutions of the Dirac equation |
| Nov 22 | Exercise 5 |
| Nov 27 | Phenomenology of weak interaction |
| Nov 29 | W and Z boson and electroweak unification |
| Dec 4 | Parity and CP violation in weak interaction |
| Dec 6 | Exercise 6 |
| Dec 11 | The Higgs boson |
| Dec 13 | Exercise 7 |
| Dec 18 | Movie: Particle Fever |
| Dec 20 | Closing lecture, Q&A |