66-250 Advanced particle physics

Instructors: Prof. Dr. Elisabetta Gallo; Dr. Andreas Hinzmann

Event type: Lecture

Displayed in timetable as: APP

Hours per week: 4

Language of instruction: English

Min. | Max. participants: 5 | -

Comments/contents:
The course covers experimental and theoretical aspects of elementary particle physics. After an introduction into the relevant concepts of the Dirac theory, symmetries, conservation laws and Feynman diagrams we will discuss more advanced topics including electroweak unification, the Higgs mechanism and physics beyond the Standard Model. The discussion is accompanied by experimental aspects, explaining the major discoveries in the 20th and 21st century, for example the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Learning objectives:
At the end of the course, students will be familiar with concepts of elementary particle physics. Students will be able to calculate relevant quantities such as interaction cross-sections and they will understand the connection between theory and experiment. Students will understand the Standard Model of particle physics, including its shortcomings leading to hypothetical models of physics beyond the Standard model.

Literature:
B. R. Martin and G. Shaw. Particle Physics. 2008
D. Griffiths. Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics. 2008
O. Nachtmann. Elementary Particle Physics: Concepts and Phenomena. 1990.
F. Halzen and A. D. Martin. Quarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics. 1984.
D. H. Perkins. Introduction to High Energy Physics. 1982.
M. E. Peskin and D. V. Schroeder. An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory. 1995.